Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awesome burdens of the papacy have hardly grown lighter since the 13th century, and they were defined last week in solemn ceremony for the man who would leave the conclave as the 262nd Pontiff. At a Mass in St. Peter's before the cardinals retired into their sealed-off quarters, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, Secretary of Briefs to the Princes (an ancient office in the papal household), told them in finely chiseled Latin what sort of man they must choose...
Peter's to align the lid of the Pope's lead coffin, all Rome was humming, too, in preparation for the suspense and mystery of electing the 262nd Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church...
Designating Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, onetime (1953-57) U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce and AEC Chairman John A. McCone to represent the U.S. at the funeral services in St. Peter's, Presbyterian Eisenhower accepted an invitation to attend a Requiem Mass for the Pontiff this week at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington...
These words [Have pity on me, God, according to thy mercy.'), which I pronounced at the moment in which with trepidation I accepted election as Supreme Pontiff, I now repeat at a time in which knowledge of the deficiencies, of the failures, of the sins committed during so long a pontificate and in so grave an epoch has made more clear to my mind my insufficiency and unworthiness . . . I pray those whose affair it is not to bother to erect any monuments to my memory: sufficient it is that my poor mortal remains should be laid simply...
Then late Tuesday night a Vatican official said flatly the pontiff's condition had taken a turn for the worse. A doctor close to the situation said the pontiff was still afflicted with partial paralysis that affected his upper body, face and speech...