Sentence examples for a pontiff from inspiring English sources
Pope Francis is proving a pontiff of surprises.
Besides, Larkin has a rather more mobile status than either a pontiff or a monarch.
It was the first time a pontiff had included women in the ceremony.
Despite the New Coke debacle, he was "treated more like a pontiff than a chief executive".
I've been called a tech guru, an information wizard, and a pontiff of pixels.
They are more than aware that they need a Pontiff who will genuinely make his mark in history.
Last autumn, the BBC cancelled an adult-oriented cartoon series called Popetown featuring an infantile pontiff on a pogo stick because of Catholic anger.
"Rome looks with wistful eye to domination of this broad land, a magnificent seat for a sovereign pontiff," one writer cautioned.
White smoke traditionally emerges from a Vatican chimney to signify a new pontiff has been chosen.
The cardinal was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and his reputation was very much that of a hard-liner: the clenched fist behind a charismatic pontiff.
On Saturday the Vatican dismissed the La Repubblica report as an attempt to influence the cardinals choosing a new pontiff.
