Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later the Pope, who claims world-wide spiritual dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...
...King which then began has now been so thoroughly patched up by the Treaty signed last fortnight that next June, according to announcements made last week, the Royal State Coach will clatter up to the Vatican, and King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay a call which the Supreme Pontiff will speedily return...
...came as the lord spiritual, and for the first time since 1870 as the lord temporal. "Il Papa! Il Papa Consolatore!" chanted the kneeling multitude, "The Pope! The Pope Consoler!" Amid out bursts of the purest ecstasy the supreme pontiff then performed the miracle of the high mass, transforming things inanimate into the veritable body and blood...
...imprisonment" in the Vatican and restores the Supreme Pontiff to temporal power...
Seldom enough is such a treat vouchsafed to the Supreme Pontiff; for it seldom snows in Rome, and since 1870 no Pope has left the Vatican. Last week, however, came joyous confirmation of the news (TIME, Jan. 14) that Pope Pius will soon cease to be "the Prisoner of the Vatican," self-cooped in his own palace because of a quarrel with the Italian Government...