pontiff
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“Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood,” the pontiff observed in a brief address at a Vatican-sponsored conference on AI on Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
They will be able to greet the pontiff as the Popemobile travels one kilometer to get to the home.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The world's first US-born pontiff, who holds Peruvian citizenship, will celebrate mass on a desert plain near the Pacific Ocean, before visiting Cusco, the former Inca capital, and Pucallpa, a city in the Amazon rainforest.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
The 71-year-old pontiff has started to walk and has "resumed a normal diet" following the roughly 90-minute procedure, the medics said in an update shared by the Vatican.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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
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