pontificate

When he left the Pentagon, he dedicated himself to pontificating on the abundant sins of the Defense Department — and he was mostly right.

But lately, viewers are likely to also see him pontificating on politics, appearing as a talking head on various news programs including NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Fox News’ “Hannity” and ABC’s “This Week.”

Early in his pontificate, he made four long-distance trips to the region: to South Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Japan.

Francis has made reaching out to migrants a priority of his pontificate and has called for receiving countries, within their means, to welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants.

He pontificated, and they filed down that sharpness respectfully.