“Tonight the pontiff will return to St Peter's Square to celebrate midnight mass.”

“Even then, the crowds at the Vatican were not certain they had a new pontiff until the bells of St Peter's rang out.”

“It took their priesthood, their pontifex, their pontiff, and gave it a whole new meaning, a whole new level.”

“It took their priesthood, their pontifex, their pontiff, and gave it a whole new meaning, a whole new level.”

“Truly it points to Jesus as pontifex, mediator, broker, and priest uniting both God and the disciples.”

“Not content with being an artist, Mr pontifex must needs also be a musician.”

“The West Wing became a critical and fan favorite, and successfully walked that tricky tightrope between pontification and dramatization.”

“I present a new breed of cultural critic, unleashing a fresh brand of polysyllabic pontification.”

“Today there is no justification except pontification by the powerful of the world.”

“Ailing and flatulent, the noted pontificator gives new meaning to the term windbag.”

“Neither of the Georges is much given to candour, H. W. because of his WASP-y reserve and W. because he's not a pontificator.”

“After all, Lovelock is one of our most distinguished ecologists, the environment movement's sanest pontificator and a scientist of considerable distinction.”

“But more strictly and accurately, rubricians limit the pontificals to those ornaments which a prelate wears in celebrating pontifically.”

“When he arrived at the village of Mentana, he heard that the pontificals were close by, and he waited to give them battle.”

“June 15, 1568, the pontificals printed in Dueas and Valladolid were ordered to be seized.”

“His authority in talking to the rich would be considerably greater than his pontifications on a society he knows little of.”

“Taking an aristocrat's pompous and often unrealistic pontifications as an ideal for living is clearly not a good thing.”

“Sociological accounts of the Indian village community also contradict Marxist pontifications on the subject.”

“This Zion is full of the leaders and followers, pontificators and preachers, spiritual and surface humans that we recognize from our daily lives.”

“And all the while, the talking heads talked, the pontificators pontificated, and the letters and e-mails flooded our offices.”

“Political scientists say pundits and pontificators are missing the fact that most Americans have other things to worry about.”

“Both Pius XI and Pius XII had pontificates that built upon the concordats begun under Benedict.”

“But Marin is unconvincing when he pontificates or philosophizes.”

“Buddy rambles, digresses, pontificates, and fails completely to make Seymour Glass seem a believable human being.”

“The augurs and pontifices were the public men and statesmen, and they made religion a State function.”

“The master or superintendent of the pontifices was one of the most honorable offices in the commonwealth.”

“The pontifices also explain, to those who inquire of them, the proper ceremonies at funerals.”