pontiff

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The pontiff of the time, who persuaded Attila to turn his army back and spare Rome, was called Pope Leo I.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Never before has the relationship between Washington and the Vatican revolved around two Americans — specifically, a 79-year-old politician from Queens and a 70-year-old pontiff from Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

After the meeting, Macron said he was "very happy" to meet the pontiff, who became head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics last May.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

The pope didn’t name Trump or U.S. officials in the post, but the American pontiff has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

People aren’t ordinarily carried in chairs in New Hampshire, and as they raised him up he looked very strange to me, like some tragic and exalted personage, a stricken pontiff.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles