Word: pontiff
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...Porta Pertusa. "What a pity," he sighed, as he saw the ramshackle remains of the 60-foot tower. "This is such a lovely place." Within weeks, workmen began restoring the 500-year-old structure, which will be equipped with an elevator for what insiders said would become the Pontiff's summer retreat for meditation and for private audiences with relatives and intimates...
...Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will climax this week in Rome in a "Christian summit meeting" with Pope John XXIII, the first meeting since the 14th century of a Roman pontiff and an Archbishop of Canterbury...
...triple crown, or triregnum, evolved in the 13th century, and its original meaning has been lost. Some authorities say that the Pontiff's three crowns represent the "teaching, ruling and sanctifying church"; others UPI that they are symbolic of the Pope's being the father of the Princes of Kings, Pontiff of the World, Vicar of Christ on Earth...
...occasion of an ad-lib address to some 10,000 pilgrims and tourists, just happened to draw attention to a major doctrinal difference that ranges Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy on one side and Protestantism on the other. Extolling the role of the Virgin Mary in Roman Catholic theology, the Pontiff, while not mentioning Protestants by name, lamented the "many who also hold to the name of Christians who have forgotten the Madonna and left her outside their door...
...their Roman holiday, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret saw Pope John XXIII in a 20-minute private audience. They conversed in French, but it was later reported that the jovial Pontiff told his royal visitors: "English is the next language I shall learn!" One afternoon, before getting elegant for a dinner party, Margaret ventured forth for cocktails with a new beau. Italians were quick to read budding romance into her frequent dates with tall, retiring Prince Henry of Hesse, 31, a Protestant and a scion of the Italian House of Savoy. Henry, a talented painter...