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Pontifex
Definition:
(n.) A high priest; a pontiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) In case you're wondering though, the Pope's @Pontifex Twitter Account Is not shutting down... or at least, not yet.
(2) Within hours of the announcement, the Twitter username @pontifex_ln had nearly 2,000 followers.
(3) One of Zmuda's former students summed up the growing discomfort among some Catholics regarding the unequal treatment of gay people in a tweet to his holiness Pope Francis , or as he is better known on twitter, @Pontifex: Hey big guy, we need you over here in Washington.
(4) #ecbguesses May 2, 2013 And a couple of more frivolous ideas for what the ECB might call a new scheme to help small firms: Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) @ katie_martin_fx Better Outright Lending Liquidity On Credit Klaims May 2, 2013 Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) @ katie_martin_fx Warehouse Asset Short-Term European Official Funding for Term Instruments of Medium Enterprises May 2, 2013 Updated at 12.26pm BST 12.16pm BST The Pope tweets: Pope Francis (@Pontifex) My thoughts turn to all who are unemployed, often as a result of a self-centred mindset bent on profit at any cost.
(5) Such actions saw him voted person of the year by both Time magazine and the US gay and lesbian magazine The Advocate, while his Twitter account - @pontifex – has almost 3.8 million followers.
(6) retweet previous February 24, 2014 Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Dear Holy Father @Pontifex , Sorry that I have caused havoc in your social media world.
(7) Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Dear Holy Father @Pontifex , would you like to see @DarrenAronofsky film #NOAH ?
(8) Seriously though, #Noah the movie will fascinate you February 25, 2014 Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Dear Holy Father @Pontifex @Pontifex_it @DarrenAronofsky #Noah film.
(9) Updated at 10.36pm GMT 10.21pm GMT The announcement by the official papal Twitter account has now been re-tweeted a good 65,000 times: Pontifex (@Pontifex) HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM March 13, 2013 10.18pm GMT A detail from a Reuters biographical sketch : Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) !
(10) In fourth place comes Francis's Twitter handle, @Pontifex.
(11) @BarackObama to @Pontifex : Forgive me father for I have spied.
(12) Yesterday, when @pontifex was showing up on my Twitter feed at a rather alarming rate, I expected the worst.
(13) Screening?The message of the film is powerful , fascinating , resonant February 24, 2014 Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) Holy Father @Pontifex , it would be my deepest pleasure to bring the @DarrenAronofsky film to you to screen.
Pontiff
Definition:
(n.) A high priest.
(n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus.
(n.) The chief priest.
(n.) The pope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(2) In a scene rich in symbolism, members of the Swiss Guard have just marched away from the entrance to the pontiff's Summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
(3) Pope Francis in DC: pontiff alludes to sex abuse and political divisions – live Read more “I am also conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice,” he said.
(4) I think he said something much softer than was originally reported by the media.” Trump went on to praise the pope as having “a lot of energy” and being effective in his role, adding that he agreed with many of the pontiff’s positions.
(5) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
(6) We cannot think that a society has a future when it fails to pass laws capable of protecting families and ensuring their basic needs, especially those of families just starting out.” Intentionally or not, the pontiff’s politically tinged address would have bolstered his progressive reputation, even though traditional Catholic social doctrine has long espoused access to housing, medical aid and work.
(7) The leader of Ireland’s Catholics, archbishop Eamon Martin, said he would discuss its findings with Pope Francis when he met the pontiff in Rome later on Friday.
(8) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
(9) But, as Rome marks his first anniversary, just how successful has this peculiarly popular pontiff been?
(10) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
(11) When the pontiff can’t bring the hammer down hard on one of the globe’s most egregious and well-documented bishops complicit in child abuse cover-ups, he does a disservice to disillusioned Catholics who expect real reform.
(12) On Thursday, the pontiff unleashed the most powerful and politically loaded rhetoric of his trip, attacking the "culture of selfishness and individualism" and urging more efforts to fight hunger and poverty.
(13) This marked the first meeting between Alexandrine and Roman pontiffs since 451.
(14) Ever since Bergoglio – the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first to take the name Francis – after St Francis of Assisi – strode out on to the balcony of St Peter's on 13 March to joke that cardinals had been forced to cast their nets to "the end of the Earth" to find a new pontiff , the church has been reinvigorated, reinterpreted and, some would say, purged of a little of the poison of the recent past.
(15) When Pope Francis touches down in Havana on Saturday, the modest 78-year-old pontiff will have a chance to savor the rapprochement he helped to broker between the US and Cuba last year – a deal that stunned the world and revived the Vatican’s status as a diplomatic powerhouse .
(16) While he declined to comment on any details of the encyclical following his morning meeting with the Argentinean pontiff – the document has already been written and is being translated – he said he was counting on the pope’s “moral voice and moral leadership” to help accelerate talks.
(17) In Kingsley Amis’s The Alteration (1976), the Reformation has not happened and England remains a Roman Catholic country, obedient to the religious rule from Rome of a Yorkshire-born pontiff, who seems to be a caricature of Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the time Amis was writing.
(18) This disclaimer is probably necessary because the late pontiff is revealed to have made some eccentric decisions but, as Harris’s “late Holy Father” shares most of the biography of Pope Francis and has also made identical speeches, it is in practice impossible not to impose his face on the character.
(19) Pope Francis urges Congress to treat immigrants in 'humane and just' way Read more Without mentioning Donald Trump or other immigrant-bashing Republican presidential contenders, the pontiff summoned the spirit of America – North, South, Central – and its common humanity.
(20) After the remote, intellectual German theologian came the church's first Jesuit leader, its first Latin American pontiff – and the first pope to take the name of Francis.