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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.

Pope


Definition:

  • (n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
  • (n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
  • (n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
  • (n.) A fish; the ruff.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
  • (2) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
  • (3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (4) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
  • (5) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
  • (6) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
  • (7) He was protected by the pope, because his art – forgotten today – was rated at the time.
  • (8) William Burroughs called the film director John Waters "the pope of trash".
  • (9) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
  • (10) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
  • (11) The eye-catching deal was that punters would have their stakes returned if the winning pope was black – or something like that.
  • (12) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
  • (13) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
  • (14) The former Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was selected in March as the first Latin pope.
  • (15) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
  • (16) After that the new pope will be brought out to greet the crowd.
  • (17) Pope Francis was kind, genuinely caring, and very personable,” her statement continued.
  • (18) The pope’s support of Davis and others objecting to same-sex marriage and actively trying to keep people from marrying will result in more bigotry and discrimination against us, and is at variance with his overall message of inclusiveness.
  • (19) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
  • (20) The voice of the Pope lifting up these issues is very very important to the work that we are doing, but we have to be cautious,” he said.

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