How To Use Pontificate In A Sentence
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But the Pope does not want to polemicize and highlights again, with absolute non-constraint, that from the beginning his pontificate wanted to have as an absolute priority that established by Jesus for the Successor of Peter, namely "to make God present in this world and to open to men the access to God", in a world in which "God disappears from the horizon of men".
Advance Report on the Papal Letter about the Lifting of the SSPX Excommunications
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Every unearthable fact of his life was pulled out, torn apart, and pontificated upon by as many half-cocked pundits as had opinions to peddle.
The Priest
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But in every other way, this particular pontificate has been very much a pontificate that has given great respect and credence to women, and has built their participation into the structures.
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The pontificate of Sergius III was remarkable for the rise of what papal historians call a "pornocracy," or rule of the harlots, a reversal of the natural order as they saw it, according to Liber pontificalis and a later chronicler who was also biased against Sergius III.
LT Saloon
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The entire homily is incredible, I would say among the greatest of his pontificate, I will post an English translation once it becomes available (see post above):
Papal Vespers for the Conclusion of the Pauline Year
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We know that because he refused to rule out a lobbying job even as he pontificated about education, charity, or private enterprise.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal?
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They can't wait to pontificate on the virtues of itsy-bitsy, low taxing, low spending government, but then whenever they get their hands on the damn thing they drive up the national debt like Yahweh himself told them it was their personal holy crusader's mission to party hearty at the public's expense ( "I command you to choose a hockey mom from amongst your number, and cause her to buildeth a bridge to nowhere!").
Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children
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The excess space they give you to iterate and re-iterate, describe, and have characters reflect and pontificate is nothing less than sheer luxury. on 08 Jul 2008 at 12: 33 pm Therese Walsh
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Killing Darlings
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Today as the conclave announces its decision, the offering of prayers for this new pontificate is the most appropriate response from other Christian leaders," the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC general minister and president, said in a written statement to United Church News.
The Rev. Chuck Currie:
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It is possible to prattle and pontificate about the cultural relevance of the cheap romance novel, and how its development, like, totally reflects the changes to women's status in society.
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I've always pontificated loudly that I hate passive heroes, those who sit/stand back and let things happen to them.
Don't Take This Lying Down
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Due to the small size of the parish church, the Bishop had to pontificate from the faldstool.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Though she is careful not to ever pontificate or sermonise, she believes that written works of fiction ought to convey some message.
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I'll bet you're the type who holds the floor and pontificates, Alpha, and feels threatened by anyone who interleaves comments.
Radio alert.
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Guy uses the term pipsqueak in discussing bloggers who pontificate but don't report and the return fire is as purple as piece of prose that I've seen in quite a while.
What's the matter with Cleveland?
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Following the lecture His Eminence will Pontificate at a Solemn Mass according to the Missal of Paul VI in intercession for the beatification of John Henry Newman at the Oxford Oratory at 6.00 pm.
George Cardinal Pell to Visit Oxford, Sung Vespers at Merton, Mass at the Oxford Oratory
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From this pontificate come, not surprisingly, important collections of church, or canon, law.
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There's Luman the metaphysician, who gazes at the ceiling while he pontificates.
GALILEE
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One preliminary point: this will not be made a dogma of the Church during this pontificate since this Pope is not inclined to do anything that would be perceived as a unilateral action apart from the Eastern bishops.
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Montalto, he gaped for the pretendedly unsought pontificate, and the moment he was chosen leapt upon the prancing beast, which it was thought by the amazed conclave he was not able to mount, without help of chairs and men?
Clarissa Harlowe
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One of the fascinating things about Pope Benedict's pontificate is how he has consistently and continually appealed to reason and to man's ability to think, know, and understand.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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Richard swallowed his mouthful, leaned back in his seat and polished his glasses in a parody of the learned academics who pontificate on TV.
KICK BACK
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Yes, I think it's timing - the timing is significant, number one, because it comes very early in the pope's pontificate.
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He always pontificates about the evils of modern society.
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The latter is a moralistic bore who puts intellectual curiosity second to her desire to pontificate.
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He always pontificates about the evils of modern society.
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But Marin is unconvincing when he pontificates or philosophizes.
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He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat.
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Among the many achievements of the pontificate of John Paul II, some would say the most important achievement, was to secure the hermeneutic for the interpretation of that great council.
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But what Councils do not deal with, and therefore neglect, is also of great significance: thus Vatican II was deafeningly silent about what was to become the main preoccupation of the pontificate of John Paul II: evangelisation.
Newman, Continuity and Vatican II according to Fr. Ian Ker
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When used properly, John Hurt puts the 'pont' in 'pontificate'.
Scott Mendelson: Summit commissions a script for a Red sequel. Who should be added to the cast?
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No, certainly I mustn't play the mystical seer and pontificate as if I knew all the answers!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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To viciously pontificate about a celebrity's perceived character flaws and imagined motivations is pretty cheap.
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Whilst I prevaricate, discuss: is it better to pontificate or to ruminate?
Existential Dilemma
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No one these days would argue such a thesis at length any more than they would pontificate on the brain-measuring taxonomies of 19th-century phrenologists who took the white man's superiority for granted.
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No, certainly I mustn't play the mystical seer and pontificate as if I knew all the answers!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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The date chosen for her beatification, Mission Sunday, is the Sunday closest to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the pontificate of John Paul II and to the end of the Year of the Rosary.
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I think it should be illegal for non-parents to pontificate on/about parenting.
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And so I pontificated for six weeks until, precisely 12 hours before the Munchkin was due to skip merrily through the school gates, I found myself furiously ironing name tapes into the back of gym shorts.
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Theories were suggested, opinions were proffered, heads of channels pontificated.
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Since the dawn of humankind, love has been studied, pondered, pontificated and written about by scholars and sages of antiquity.
Live and Let Love
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The play attitudinizes, pontificates, mystifies, and bores.
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There's Luman the metaphysician, who gazes at the ceiling while he pontificates.
GALILEE
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Not only will none of that pressure pervade the next conclave, but almost certainly pressure will build for the successor to break free, at least in name, from a pontificate of immoderate length.
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During the last years of Leo XIII's pontificate, religious houses tried to win over the poor for Catholicism.
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And so, what we got yesterday were all of the records from the pontificate of Pius XI, that is, covering the years 1922 and 1939, dealing with the relationship between Germany and the Holy See, that is, the Vatican.
CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2003
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On the feast itself he pontificated at Mass and preached three times to the people.
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Also in the coffin is a small bag of commemorative medals issued over the course of his pontificate and a sealed document with a description of the pope's life, in Latin.
USATODAY.com - Papal funeral merges spectacle, symbolism
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I'll bet you're the type who holds the floor and pontificates, Alpha, and feels threatened by anyone who interleaves comments.
Radio alert.
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Early in this pontificate, that institutional question was more clearly addressed in papal teaching on social justice and in diplomatic pressure in Eastern Europe.
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Muegge held his tongue as Good Old Harry publicly pontificated on the wisdom of ag globalization, integration and concentration.
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There were many times an evangelistic Gates pontificated about the future of PCs on the desktop.
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Richard swallowed his mouthful, leaned back in his seat and polished his glasses in a parody of the learned academics who pontificate on TV.
KICK BACK
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Before that can be done well, I think, the archives of Pius XII's pontificate will probably have to be fully catalogued and opened.
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She also forgot that her boss, President Assad himself, pontificated just weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal to the West and his fellow Arab rulers, that the Syrian people genuinely love him due to his anti-Israel and anti-U.S. policies.
Dr. Josef Olmert: Reporting Syria: 1984 and Tass All Over Again
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Political bloggers need to do better than just parroting their party talking points or being the millionth person to pontificate on something that is going to be moot anyway .... but I guess it did say “partisan” bloggers ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers unite against finance bill bipartisanship. Split on Obama effect in November
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Otherwise, Republicans can pontificate, as in the Pledge to America, about how "joblessness is the single most important challenge facing America today" and extol the "pride and dignity that comes with an honest day's work and a steady paycheck.
Republicans guilty of mass murder on job creation
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Later this month the church's 184 cardinals will gather at the Vatican for the sixth consistory of Pope John Paul II's pontificate.
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Indeed, part of the problem with discussion of the topic is that non-scientists are often too willing to pontificate about matters of climatology.
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In short, Mr. Outside has been succeeded by Mr. Inside; and the story of Ratzinger's emergence as the Church's leader reveals the ways in which his pontificate is likely to affect the Church as a whole.
The Year of two Popes
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Others pontificate on health, telling us what we should and should not do to remain well, while we are overwhelmed with financial advice from experts whose predictions often turn out wrong.
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No, certainly I mustn't play the mystical seer and pontificate as if I knew all the answers!
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Both Pius XI and Pius XII had pontificates that built upon the concordats begun under Benedict.
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He will seize any opportunity to pontificate, expressing his views with fervid self-assurance and with little concern for time constraints or his audience.
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When Francesco Borromini came to restore the nave of the Lateran basilica during the pontificate of Innocent X, subsidiary altars again had no role to play.
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Flags flew at half-mast, pundits pontificated, and Americans watched replay after replay of airplanes flying into the World Trade Center.
Ocean Robbins: Was 9/11 Really a Call to War?
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Poor Prince Charles preaches and pontificates about harmony and simplicity, then ties himself in masochistic bondage knots of inconsistency by spending £100k on a biofuelled train tour to promote cycling.
Hypocrisy of champagne environmentalists is deceitful and distracting | Ed Gillespie
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In his short pontificate he distributed 1900 solidi to the clergy and to the deaconries for the poor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Like my colleagues, I don't speak in jargoned riddles -- or, as he parodied in his "Restoring History" episode, arrogantly pontificate through pipe-smoke, an authoritative blue blazer unsuccessfully concealing my fey pink shirt.
Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
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Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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And still the candidates pontificate and debate, and their supporters bicker about nonsense in the comments bit under videos on YouTube.
Current Affairs
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They can't wait to pontificate on the virtues of itsy-bitsy, low taxing, low spending government, but then whenever they get their hands on the damn thing they drive up the national debt like Yahweh himself told them it was their personal holy crusader's mission to party hearty at the public's expense (“I command you to choose a hockey mom from amongst your number, and cause her to buildeth a bridge to nowhere!”).
Printing: Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children
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Later this month the church's 184 cardinals will gather at the Vatican for the sixth consistory of Pope John Paul II's pontificate.
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The object is to eliminate long-winded confabs where participants pontificate, play Angry Birds on their cellphones or tune out.
No More Angling for the Best Seat; More Meetings Are Stand-Up Jobs
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As a Bishop he pontificated that night and consecrated the apostles bishops so they might say the Mass with him.
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Like many “normal” people, he pontificated about these phenomena without once debating them removed from passion and ideology.
Dreamseller: The Calling
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It was just that she'd never done anything to earn the right to pontificate.
PROSPECT HILL
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Special details within the church render it unique including the fifth century mosaics of the central nave, the triumphal arch dating back to the pontificate of Pope Sixtus III (432-440) and the apsidal mosaic executed by the Franciscan friar Jacopo Torriti at the order of Pope Nicholas IV (1288-1292).
The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
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How does my generation comprehend the fact that while the nations burns and our leaders fiddle - our elders sit, pontificate and posture?
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The document called the Liberian catalogue of popes puts the beginning of his pontificate in the year 223 and its close in the year 230.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Instead speakers from across the political spectrum pontificated over the ‘meaninglessness’ of official political reform efforts, listing countless reasons why the current regime has to go.
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The only problem was that Martini had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, inviting the prospect of another pontificate ending in slurred speech and trembling hands.
The Year of two Popes
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The decision was made during the pontificate of Pope John XX.
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Before that can be done well, I think, the archives of Pius XII's pontificate will probably have to be fully catalogued and opened.
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Each weblog we visit, the owner - myself included - pontificates on all the wrongs and evils of the day.
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The problem with the blogosphere and and you lot that sit back and pontificate is that a keyboard and mouse have made you an expert.
Weenie of the Week #30 for 2006
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Before that can be done well, I think, the archives of Pius XII's pontificate will probably have to be fully catalogued and opened.
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It was just that she'd never done anything to earn the right to pontificate.
PROSPECT HILL
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The new professor always pontificates
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Now, four years into Benedicts's pontificate and nearly 100 days into Kirill's patriarchate, nearly all Vatican observers agree that, as Pope John Paul II was driven by the desire to end the scourge of atheist Communism, so Pope Benedict XVI still hopes passionately to see the restoration of a unified Church.
Ecumenism
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I am sure you would come back and pontificate some more but let me give you credit for at least trying to "quantify" your analysis, as simplistic and flawed as it was ...
Poll: Hillary Way, Way Ahead In Florida Primary
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Moreover, as his case shows, the longer a pontificate lasts, the greater the likelihood that a name chosen in good faith will outlive its aptness.
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Less than a hundred days into his pontificate, the new Pope John XXIII startled most of the world by announcing his intention to convoke an ecumenical council.
