pontificate
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“The sentence is a jigsaw puzzle,” said Rodrigo Falk Fragoso, a professor of criminal law at the Catholic Pontificate University in Rio de Janeiro.
From Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2018
By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The sole aim of Our Pontificate," he wrote, "will be to restore all things to God."
From Time Magazine Archive
Given at St. Peter's, in Rome, on the 9th day of May, 1897, in the 20th year of Our Pontificate.
From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Jarrett, Bede
His Pontificate was prolonged beyond the years of Peter at Rome.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
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