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The pope, in a sense, in previous centuries, and certainly for the hundred years prior to this pope, the pope was almost a prisoner in the Vatican.
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- noun Roman Catholic Church The bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church on earth.
- noun Eastern Orthodox Church The patriarch of Alexandria.
- noun The Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.
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The pope, in a sense, in previous centuries, and certainly for the hundred years prior to this pope, the pope was almost a prisoner in the Vatican.
— CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005 -
As long as the pope is alive, they're in the control in the pope.
— CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2005 -
They just want to either touch the pope or say something to him, but it's a reminder, actually, that as compared to other world leaders, presidents and prime ministers, the security penumbra around the pope is actually fairly thin.
— CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009 -
I thought that the pope was moving forward to the right direction because I personally asked the pope -- I urged the pope, actually, to promote Christian/Muslim dialogue.
— CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006 -
Speaking at this point of how much the pope was a breaker of custom and how he wasn't shackled by protocol from being present, when he first walked out onto that central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, to deliver his first greeting after being elected pope, there was a moment when he had delivered the blessing when the chief organizer of ceremony, a cardinal by the name of Regilio Nole (ph), leaned in and took him by the arm as if to say holy father, it's time to go now.
— CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2005
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- Middle English, from Old English pāpa, from Late Latin, from Latin, father (title of bishops), from Greek pappās; see papa in Indo-European roots.
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