Word: pontifex
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...then was the Dominus Apostolicus setting out for the Arctic? He was not, of course, setting out at all! The indiscreet headline writer had created a false impression with regard to the Summus Pontifex by neglecting to make clear that the story run beneath his headline was about R. A. Pope, a minor explorer...
Death, the Black Pontifex, came last week to Louis Nazaire, Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec and Catholic Primate of Canada. Magnificent in scarlet stole, guarded by a detachment of the Papal Zouaves, his body lay in the chapel of his palace in Quebec while thousands of those whose souls had been in his custody passed humbly before him, one by one. Then he was carried underground...
...This was the Syllabus in which the Pope said: "Si quis dixit: Romanus Pontifex potest ac debet cum progressu, cum liberalismo et cum recenti civilitate sese reconciliare et compere-anatema sit." ["Whoever says that the Roman Pontiff can or ought to come to terms with progress, liberalism or modern civilization-let him be accursed...
...Accipe galerum rubrum," said Pius Pontifex Maximus on his throne...
...abbreviation for Pontifex Maximus...