pontiff

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-- "The Love of Christ Toward Migrants" -- the text quotes B16 on last year's US trip when, in his in-flight press conference, the pontiff was asked about immigration in the States and replied as follows:

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  1. noun The pope.
  2. noun A bishop.
  3. noun A pontifex.

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  • Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said Wednesday that he informed the White House that the pontiff is available to meet that afternoon. —  LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines
  • -- "The Love of Christ Toward Migrants" -- the text quotes B16 on last year's US trip when, in his in-flight press conference, the pontiff was asked about immigration in the States and replied as follows: —  Whispers in the Loggia
  • Plainly, the pontiff is planning to avoid getting sucked into an addiction to Facebook. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • This time, rather than shifting from a Latin to English mass, the pontiff is going social and viral with a new —  ClickZ News Blog
  • The Vatican said the criticism of the pontiff was followed by an "unprecedented media campaign" in Europe extolling the value of condoms in fighting AIDS while ignoring Benedict's message about the need for responsible sexuality and to care for those suffering from AIDS. —  WRAL.com Top Stories
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  1. French pontife, from Old French pontif, from Latin pontifex, pontifex; see pent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French pontife, Old French pontif = Spanish pontífice = Portuguese Italian pontifice, a pontiff, from Latin pontifex, pontufex (-fic-), a high priest, pontifex (see pontifex), Late Latin ecclesiastical a bishop, Middle Latin New Latin the Pope, literally (and so used in Middle Latin) ‘bridgemaker, bridge-builder’ (prob. orig. so called as having charge of the making or maintenance of a bridge—it is said, of the Sublician bridge built over the Tiber by Ancus Marcius), from pon(t-)s, bridge, + facere, make: see fact.
 

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