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"pontificate" Definitions
  1. the official position or period in office of a pope

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Why are you having John Dean and former prosecutors pontificate?
Now those allies may be the ruin of his pontificate.
But, in the pontificate of Pope Francis, that divide is blurring.
Accusations that he is willing to pontificate but not to listen.
Maloney pontificate about the ERA in front of the Fearless Girl statue.
Francis is keen to see Romero made a saint during his pontificate.
Just don't pontificate about removing a balloted nominee for the U.S. Senate.
They'd rather sit and pontificate about all of the problems that we face.
The great theme of Francis's pontificate is his emphasis on mercy over judgment.
"Joe likes to pontificate," he said, describing a discussion about the Middle East.
I had agreed to pontificate on how self-employed professionals could stay organized.
We're not going to sit around and pontificate or speculate about the news.
Along the way, they squabble over minor differences and pontificate philosophically in gravelly German.
By contrast, Mr Baur observes, Germans tend to pontificate about regulation and taxes. Perhaps.
" He added: "This is the big message that Francis is giving in his pontificate.
Advocating for those fleeing war and destitution has been a hallmark of Francis' pontificate.
WATTERS: At the same time, there are other avenues where you can pontificate about that.
Senators pontificate and probe while nominees utter bromides and dodge questions for hours on end.
Where fleets of carbon-gushing private jets fly in philanthropists to pontificate about climate change.
"It is as though these shows were created by an advanced database query," you can pontificate.
His disgraceful performance with the FBI makes him the last person who should pontificate on truth.
He didn't pontificate on the Sunday talk shows the way Jim Comey or Adam Schiff did.
Salvini has often criticized Francis, who has made defense of migrants a key feature of his pontificate.
O.K., I know I'm supposed to use my column to pontificate about Donald Trump and global crises.
He lamented his leniency, early in his pontificate, toward an Italian priest who subsequently continued his abuse.
Reporters shout, wave their hands, pontificate, issue editorials disguised as questions, filibuster and interrupt the podium speakers.
Real-life critics of the real-life pope whisper that his pontificate can be rigid and unforgiving.
" Giuliani said Comey's "disgraceful performance with the FBI makes him the last person who should pontificate on truth.
Five years into his pontificate, Francis is no small-d democrat, no faultless leader — and no perfect pope.
Pius XII "has been too superficially judged and criticized for some aspects of his pontificate," Bishop Pagano wrote.
Francis's reported dismissal of hell ties into a wider theme of his pontificate: celebrating God's mercy over God's judgment.
Instead, her subjects pontificate at length, seemingly without challenge or direction, and missed opportunities mount as the book progresses.
There, officials agreed that the church should give a "preferential option for the poor," a tenet of Francis' pontificate.
One long act of the pontificate seemed finished; the question was how much drama there was still to come.
Equally predictable, the diplomats behind these failures retire and use the media to pontificate on what their successors should do.
These Washington geniuses pontificate these are not combat missions while American forward staging posts are billeted just beyond enemy territory.
But if so it's the most ineffectual coup imaginable, with no actual plan for changing the direction of his pontificate.
"He hated people who would pontificate and rattle on about things; he just wanted to get it done," she said.
People sit there and pontificate about: I'm going to move my capital here; I'm going to move my capital here.
He also acknowledged that although politicians should not, in general, "pontificate on theological matters", it was fair to raise the subject.
The South America trip will be 22nd overseas trip of Francis' pontificate and the sixth to the continent of his birth.
But this year, it's happening during arguably the greatest crisis of Pope Francis' pontificate and of the modern-day Catholic Church.
Pope John Paul II gave researchers access to some archival collections pertaining to some aspects of Pius XII's pontificate in 2004.
In fact, the pope, who has made mercy a cornerstone of his pontificate, provided for the care of those found guilty.
I couldn't write that on a card; it felt more appropriate to pontificate about rainbows appearing at the end of storms.
The characters, who include Ms. Bauer and Kafka's friend Max Brod, pontificate aimlessly, when they're not undressing for no apparent reason.
Nine months into his pontificate, he created a commission of outside experts to counsel the church on the protection of children.
Robert Mueller breaks his silence, Amazon unveils a new device with more privacy features, and we pontificate on the philanthropy of billionaires.
"If he's got a problem," Mr. Holmes said, "he probably communicates it directly and doesn't feel the need to pontificate in public."
It has all landed on the desk of the current pope, and the scandals have the potential to undermine the Francis pontificate.
Illiterate, religious, and from a working-class Irish family, Burns has actually experienced the proletarian existence about which Engels can only pontificate.
After first encouraging advocates for victims of abuse with tough talk at the beginning of his pontificate, he was slow to act.
As a player, Ewing was never the type to pontificate or preen, to dwell on much more than the moment at hand.
They argue the economy is only getting a temporary jolt from tax cuts and after that, they pontificate, aggregate demand will tail off.
S. relations during the final years of the pontificate of St. John Paul II and the start of Pope Benedict XVI&aposs papacy.
And not because you get to pontificate about movies, but because you get to see like 12 movies for free during the day.
The book, called "The Last Conversations", is the first time in history that a former pope judges his own pontificate after it is over.
Douthat: But beginning with the synod on the family, you have been a consistent critic of specific acts and general tendencies of this pontificate.
Francis, marking the fifth Easter season of his pontificate, blessed palm and olive branches in the center of St. Peter's Square before saying Mass.
We will pontificate about the sanctity of impeachment, about the Constitution, and how this entire ordeal will eventually be judged in the history books.
Certainly Francis's inner circle regards conservative criticism of this pontificate as one with Trumpism in the United States, a variation on the same reactionary impulse.
Amid a spiraling sexual abuse crisis that has threatened the pontificate of Pope Francis, America's top Roman Catholic prelates met with the pontiff on Thursday.
But he "turns out to be bad at hiding," our correspondents write, and has repeatedly chimed in throughout the pontificate of his successor, Pope Francis.
In the Palestinian case, cutting off their aid may actually force them to negotiate seriously for a state rather than pontificate and about Israeli obstruction.
He said that since the start of his pontificate he had refused to sign "even one" request for a pardon from about 25 pedophile priests.
The relationship between Europeans and Arabs is, as Kaplan writes, the "backbone" of the book, not merely a platform to pontificate about the absurdity of life.
J.P. Morgan's Jamie Dimon has already been vocal about tariffs; I expect him to pontificate more on this topic during the bank's earnings call on Friday.
Your hosts for the evening will pontificate on the current exhibitions at the museum as well as such burning questions as: why do cows wear bells?
In 2006, early in his pontificate, Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, delivered a speech in Regensburg, Germany, that offended Muslims, who saw it as an attack on Islam.
He was smart, respectful, and benefitted from the fact that a lot of the lawmakers used their time to pontificate or ask questions that weren't very technical.
Gail: Davos, as you may have heard, is an annual gathering in Switzerland where the economic and political elite come to have dinners and chat and pontificate.
McCarrick's steady ascent in the U.S. Church hierarchy, with Vatican approval, came during the pontificate of Pope John Paul, which lasted from 1978 until his death in 2005.
In his spare time, Knox visits his sometime girlfriend, Nora Roby, to pontificate about how people who imagine themselves to be heroes don't understand the nature of heroism.
Pope Francis is facing the greatest crisis of his pontificate as the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church has exploded once again in countries around the world.
Its characters teem with righteous outrage and constantly pontificate and philosophize, creating a moral backdrop that lets viewers partake of the show's gruesome subject matter without feeling dirty.
This conference resembles your average future-focused startup conference these days: there's a pitching stage, a main stage for speakers and panels to pontificate, an exhibition hall — the usual.
Creating a fake Oval Office to pontificate from, Williams positioned his partisan-packed hour of outrageous comedy in Florida—one of the most politically divided states in the country.
Trump first bought his way into politicking in 1987, when he started placing full-page ads in daily newspapers to pontificate on foreign policy and, later, the death penalty.
By the time he arrived in the Senate as a freshman, he could smugly pontificate about what he might have done had he been in the position to choose.
" In a fantasy showdown with a boisterously pompous academic waiting in line for a movie, Allen's character, overhearing his jag, confronts him: "Aren't you ashamed to pontificate like that?
At Francis' orders, the Vatican in March will open its secret archives on the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII, a historic move that Jews have sought for decades.
"Christmas reminds us that God continues to love us all, even the worst of us," Francis, presiding at the seventh Christmas season of his pontificate, said in his sermon.
"Never like in this pontificate has there been as much concern, but also understanding, of this country," said Porras, who has been critical of Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez.
It's no coincidence that just about all the sequences that could use a more concise edit are the ones that let Elliot pontificate, whether inside his own head or otherwise.
Sit and watch as prime ministers and presidents come and go, pontificate and promise, only later to be replaced by recalcitrant leaders who repeal, rescind and maybe never even replace?
And from the outset of his pontificate, it was clear that Pope Francis was one of them, and that he was determined to renegotiate its terms — in liberal Catholicism's favor.
"We try to be as multinational as the abortion industry, and they make no apologies for sending in their international affiliates to pontificate to the Irish people," said Dr. Engela.
But in the spirit of the Edge Question that Brockman used to toss out for his crowd to pontificate on, here's a Big Question: What ideas did Jeffrey Epstein shape?
Coming seven years into Francis' papacy, his decision also raised the question of whether his promotion of discussing once-taboo issues is resulting in a pontificate that is largely talk.
Most other times, this would be a strange sight — the mayor of the nation's largest city passing up a chance to pontificate and parry with the City Hall press corps.
There should be people in Rome telling the Pope this information, but they are not, and that is one of the biggest problems in this pontificate -- and it's getting worse.
Republicans blasted him for his conclusion that charges weren't necessary, while some Democrats questioned why he felt compelled to pontificate publicly about a probe in which he found no criminal wrongdoing.
Rather than having an art critic pontificate about his work, you get more insight about Robert's character and personality when you know he held the local nonstop pogo stick record. Why?
But it was the pope's muscular response to the Chilean sexual abuse scandal, which seemed months ago to hold the potential of tarnishing his entire pontificate, that has been most remarkable.
"The greatness of this pontificate is that the spiritual intuition he has on our world -- in politics, on the environment -- he is truly a spiritual leader," said Faggioli, the church professor.
Velocity is usually not a trait associated with barbershops — especially the old-fashioned kind seen here, where men gather to fulminate, pontificate, gossip and just listen for hours at a time.
They don't make grime; nor do they make the sort of dry, crumbling hip-hop anemic stoners pontificate about as they roll damp looking spliffs in the shed behind their parents' house.
"It's too easy to pontificate and say 'never pay' when you're not the one that has to try to recover from a devastating attack," said Bob Rudis, chief data scientist at Rapid7.
"He can continue to pontificate on his issues while building a farm team and remaking the party," says David McCuan, a professor of American Politics at Sonoma State University in Northern California.
"Instagram will help recount the papacy through images, to enable all those who wish to accompany and know more about Pope Francis' pontificate to encounter his gestures of tenderness and mercy," Msgr.
If so far Francis's pontificate has been a kind of halfway revolution, its ambitions somewhat balked and its changes left ambiguous, these kind of ideas would make the revolution much more sweeping.
The pope has risked a great deal in his pontificate, but he has consistently avoided pushing conservatives into a theologically-untenable position, choosing ambiguity over a clarity that might cleave his church.
Mr. Ellis is fascinating when he glances at an idea — wrist-launched drones turning us all into modern falconers, for instance — but tedious, at least to me, when he begins to pontificate.
"To pontificate on peace while remaining silent against such violations is a contradiction of the fundamental ideals of UNESCO," said Livaneli, who had held the goodwill post to promote UNESCO values since 1996.
Musk has been known to pontificate on theories outside the mainstream, including famously last June when he said there is only a "one in billions" chance we're not living in a computer simulation.
Specifically, speculation has mounted that Benedict has been used as a stalking horse by conservative ideological opponents of Francis, whose more pastoral, inclusive and less dogmatic approach to the pontificate they consider destructive.
Although there had been speculation that Mattis might enter the political arena, he has since declined to share his views on Trump, saying it is inappropriate for military figures to pontificate on politics.
The outcry over the pope's blind spot to clerical sexual abuse, and his tin ear to the anguish of its victims, threatened to indelibly stain the pontificate of a usually politically astute pope.
Bertone, 82, was the Vatican secretary of state, effectively the deputy pope, for most of the pontificate of former Pope Benedict and was one of the most powerful men in the Roman Catholic Church.
But the push to make him a saint was revived by Francis, who was born in Buenos Aires and has made the defense of the oppressed a key pillar of his five-year pontificate.
During his 15-year pontificate, he shepherded the church through a period of enormous internal change as well as social and political upheaval, trying to bring together progressive and conservative positions in the church.
As recently as January, Francis apologized to Chilean victims of abuse, though he created a larger problem for himself and his pontificate when he defended a Chilean bishop accused of covering up that abuse.
And they raise the question facing the remainder of his pontificate: With high-level opposition thinned out and the Benedict/John Paul II vision in eclipse, how far does the pope intend to push?
For all his Twitter followers (more than any other baseball player has), he does not use the platform to pontificate on the issues of the day, beyond the doings of his beloved Philadelphia Eagles.
Sure it is political intrigue for the media and political parties to pontificate about the personal behavior of Moore (as I've said, I've found his judicial behavior abhorrent) and garner clicks, likes and eyeballs.
When Pope Francis was new to the pontificate and rocking the establishment with his 2013 critique of capitalism, Newt Gingrich professed support for the pope's view and urged other Republicans to support it as well.
But perhaps it's time to halt the practice of both industry and media commentators to pontificate over what the leaders of oil producing countries meant when they speak, and focus on the actual words used.
But I also see, as this pontificate has advanced, a growing paranoia and alienation among conservative Catholics, a temptation toward conspiracy theories that shade into sedevacantism, the belief that the pope is not the pope.
ROME — After his spirited defense of a Chilean bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse prompted the greatest crisis of his pontificate, Pope Francis reactivated an abuse commission on Saturday that had lapsed into dormancy.
Francis made his focus on the environment clear early in his pontificate, when in June 2015 he wrote "Laudato si': On Care for Our Common Home," the first papal encyclical focused solely on the environment.
But in the seventh year of the Francis pontificate, those "Protestant" anxieties are now everywhere in Catholic discussions, and both liberals and conservatives are deploying the "s" word promiscuously to describe developments that they dislike.
He was invited to the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin in 2012 to pontificate about Twitter, and said he joined the social media network thanks to a tip from the actor Ashton Kutcher.
The case adds to a long list of sexual assault accusations around the globe — from minors, other priests and nuns, among others — that have confronted the Roman Catholic Church and that threaten Pope Francis' pontificate.
Of course, as far as we know, there are no robots currently in development to pontificate about robots at major universities, so this set of respondents may have less skin in the game despite their expertise.
From the start of his pontificate, Francis has insisted that women must have a greater role in the life of the church and greater say in its decision-making — while reaffirming that they cannot be priests.
The indictments — with their indirect connection to Cardinal Bertone, arguably the most powerful internal player during the last pontificate — were yet another sign of Pope Francis' efforts to root out corruption in the church's baroque bureaucracy.
Accented by my equally unkempt beard, my visage now resembles that of an 1840s prospector or some obscure founding father, as if I had just stepped out of a daguerreotype to pontificate on matters of virtue.
For his part, Faggioli, an admirer of the Francis pontificate, has frequently condemned Douthat as an intellectual dilettante, criticizing his lack of formal theological training and what he sees as Douthat's partisan perspective on church issues.
Why it matters: The Argentine pope, whose parents were Italian immigrants, has used his pontificate to defend migrants and scorn strict immigration policies enacted by President Trump and populist anti-immigrant politicians in Europe, per Reuters.
"Nancy Pelosi can pontificate on late-night talk shows all she wants — Republicans are focused on closing strong in the battleground districts that will determine the majority," NRCC spokesman Jesse Hunt said in a statement to CNBC.
When you're sitting in the park listening to music on your wireless speaker, you're probably too busy enjoying the vibe to pontificate on the science and innovation that brought music and technology to where it is today.
Some think that this document, indeed this entire pontificate, has vindicated a traditionalist critique of post-conciliar Catholicism, and that the time has come for a complete rethinking of past concessions and compromises, past deference to Rome.
Francis, who was born in Argentina after his family emigrated there from Italy, has made defense of migrants and refugees a plank of his pontificate and has often clashed with U.S. President Donald Trump on immigration policy.
On an earlier occasion, I found on this shelf an orange paperback called "What Should We Be Worried About?" in which dozens of scientists and scholars pontificate about which threats to human existence are the most urgent.
This experiment is the most important effort of his pontificate, but in the last year he has added a second one, seeking a truce not with a culture but with a regime: the Communist government in China.
Instead of acknowledging facts, Republicans choose to pontificate about the illegality of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), while simultaneously defending the unconstitutional racial profiling by Sheriff Joseph Arpaio and the unconstitutional muslim ban by President Trump.
"You try to sell it at a party now, and at least one guy will come up to you and pontificate that you're killing people," said the dealer, who declined to be identified to avoid legal trouble.
Francis, who was born in Argentina after his family emigrated there from Italy, has made defence of migrants and refugees a plank of his pontificate and has often clashed with U.S. President Donald Trump on immigration policy.
While Paul and his co-hosts offer some soft pushback on a few items, they mostly give Jones free rein to pontificate on his theories, including Pizzagate and the claims the Sandy Hook shooting was a false flag.
Overall, the Nuggets have been exceptional when Barton is their point guard, and it's not exactly the most responsible journalistic act of my career to pontificate about a relationship between Barton's on-court mentality and his bank account.
Because Trump was not a politician -- and because my then-boss Roger Ailes had little interest in holding any Republican's feet to the fire -- we treated Trump as a pundit, letting him pontificate without fact-checking his claims.
Or, if you don't want to put the brakes on them, don't get all pissy on Twitter when people point out that being a journalist doesn't give you some sort of higher power to pontificate on all things ethics.
Give me a hot second to take my teeth out and sit on my hemorrhoid pillow and pontificate about how "you millennials" won't ever know about the time when life was real and fun, better known as the 90s.
VATICAN CITY, April 8 (Reuters) - Pope Francis issues one of the most eagerly awaited documents of his pontificate on Friday, a treatise on marriage and the family following two gatherings of Catholic bishops that exposed divisions in the Church.
The pontificate of Francis and the presidency of Donald Trump have been odd mirrors of one another for a while — populist leaders, institutional crises, norm violations, #metoo scandals, leaks and whistle-blowers and cries of "fake news" and more.
The comments by the pope, who has made defense of migrants a key part of his pontificate, came two days after an Italian Senate committee decision that could lead to a trial of Salvini for alleged kidnapping of migrants.
The report is important because for decades until 218, including during all of the pontificate of Pope John Paul, the Vatican dismissed accusations by seminarians that Maciel had abused them sexually, some when they were as young as 214.
I wouldn't drink in front of other people; I'd take a few secret slugs before my then-boyfriend would come over and, as he sat on my couch, take the opportunity to pontificate on the joys of evolving beyond dependency.
The people who tout this line love to pontificate about noise-era White Zombie, claiming Rob was a much better musician when he made music that they've never actually listened to and that they wouldn't particularly enjoy if they did.
The silence has left a vacuum into which speculation, gossip and ideological combat have now poured, consuming the Vatican and Francis' pontificate and drowning out the issue of child sexual abuse, a scourge that is devouring his church from within.
ROME — In January, Pope Francis deeply offended survivors of clerical abuse and threatened the reputation of his pontificate when he defended a Chilean bishop from the "calumny" of victims and said that he had refused the bishop's offers of resignation.
The Witches Are Coming By Lindy West If you've ever listened to someone pontificate that "this whole #MeToo thing has gone too far" or even taken a cursory glance at Trump's tweets, you'll know there's apparently a "witch hunt" underway.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Saying the "Church is not afraid of history", Pope Francis announced on Monday he plans to open fully the Vatican's secret archives on the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII, a historic move that Jews have sought for decades.
In less than five years the council fathers made changes whose number and scale dwarf the modest proposals floated in Francis' pontificate — made them over the objections of Bill Buckley and other pundits who styled themselves as more Catholic than the pope.
And yet in a remarkably short amount of time — from the first days after his election, really — the former Jorge Bergoglio has made his pontificate a vessel for religious hopes that many of his admirers didn't realize or remember that they had.
ROME — The remarkable letter last month calling on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly shielding an abusive American cardinal also served as a public call to arms for some conservative Catholics who pine for the pontificate of the previous pope, Benedict XVI.
In the midst of the media's never-ending horse race coverage of the Democratic Primary, delivered by pundits who rarely leave the comfy confines of cable news green rooms to actually speak with the voters they pontificate about, a long-brewing simmer of struggle erupted.
AS THE candidates in America's presidential race pontificate on the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots, the country's airlines are busy segmenting customers between the haves, the have-lesses, the have-somewhats, the have-nots and, now, the have-nothing-at-alls.
In private letters published on Thursday by the German newspaper Bild, Benedict, who in retirement has remained studiously quiet through the controversies over Francis' fitness to lead the church, says that the "anger" expressed by some of his staunchest defenders risks tarnishing his own pontificate.
The pope also said that he remained optimistic about striking a historic deal with China over the appointment of bishops there, and that he could accept the resignation of more Chilean bishops following a clerical sex abuse scandal that threatened the reputation of his pontificate.
Francis, who has made defense of migrants and refugees a key part of his pontificate, made his comments in to a group of refugees, including women and children, brought to Italy by the Vatican from a transit camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
The pope, who has made defense of migrants a major plank of his pontificate, launched the campaign in comments to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square for his weekly audience, urging Catholics around the world to be "open, inclusive and welcoming".
In a reign over the FBI that resembled a pontificate more than that of a career civil servant, Hoover amassed enormous amounts of harmful information on political allies and opponents alike, then used it to cajole and manipulate the political discourse for his own survival and interests.
But "Love Island" has turned into a phenomenon here, bringing millions of viewers to a minor TV channel, stoking chatter from pubs to Parliament, and becoming the go-to show for people looking to assess the state of British life, or at least pontificate about it.
The full extent of journalists' involvement in the statement - from conception and editing to translation and publication - emerges from a series of Reuters interviews that reveal a union of conservative clergy and media aimed at what papal defenders say is a campaign to weaken the reformist Francis's pontificate.
ROME — After more than three decades of pressure from historians and Jewish organizations, Pope Francis announced on Monday that he would open the sealed archives from the World War II-era pontificate of Pius XII, allowing scholars to examine how the Vatican responded to Nazism and the Holocaust.
The Vatican: Winning praise from academics and Jewish organizations, Pope Francis announced that in 2020 he would open the sealed archives from the World War II-era pontificate of Pius XII, allowing scholars to examine how the Vatican responded to Nazism and the Holocaust, a subject of deep controversy.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican will on March 2 open up its archives on the wartime pontificate of Pius XII to allow scholars to probe accusations that he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, but they will find he helped Jews behind the scenes, Holy See officials say.
Some veterans of the Vatican press corps have wryly noted that Mr. Navarro-Valls studied medicine and specialized in psychiatry — "perfect for his job as papal 'spin doctor,' " Victor Simpson, who covered John Paul's entire pontificate in Rome for The Associated Press, wrote after Mr. Navarro-Valls's death.
Francis has made defense of migrants a key feature of his pontificate and has clashed over the immigration with politicians such as U.S. President Donald Trump and Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini who leads the anti-immigrant League party and has closed Italy's ports to rescue ships operated by charities.
Francis's pontificate — which had already attracted the ire of several hardline Vatican conservatives who saw his attacks on capitalism as misguided and dangerous — has become increasingly embattled since an arch-conservative former Vatican official, Carlo Maria Viganò, accused Francis of helping cover up the transgressions of former DC Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
"Ken Nordine can pontificate on any small object and make it resonate with the profundity of consciousness and the euphony of a beautiful piece of music," the critic Neil Strauss wrote in The New York Times in 21990, previewing a performance by Mr. Nordine at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan.
On her return to the anchor's chair in October after her wedding, Ms. Aharish delivered a broadside against politicians who had bothered to pontificate about her marriage when serious social and security problems — women being murdered, sick children waiting for their medications, the "burning south" near the Gaza border — were languishing unsolved.
The fact is that what's happened with the synods, with "Amoris" and now with the subsequent divisions is a very big deal – not just big for this pontificate, but big in the context of Catholic history, in which open theological conflicts between cardinals and the pope simply do not come around very often.
The next major event on the pope's schedule is a meeting with presidents of the world's bishops' conferences at the end of February in Rome to focus on a response to the global sex abuse crisis that is threatening the pope's legacy and the moral capital that is the currency of his pontificate.
If he's not being lauded for setting the tone on conversations surrounding race and sexual orientation because he's not popular enough to have that impact, he becomes a much more benign quantity: a socially conscious, well-meaning white rapper free to pontificate and pay tribute to hip-hop godheads in a small corner of a larger musical space.
And then since there's no perfect way to make those judgments, no perfect way to tell which sort of marriage (or which sort of "marriage") is which (whatever infallibility means in Catholic thought, it certainly doesn't apply to diocesan marriage tribunals), this becomes the case for erring on the side of, yes, mercy, the great theme of this pontificate.
Airbnb, of course, calls it a pack of lies and takes the opportunity to pontificate a bit (which, to be fair,  Comptroller Stringer did too): Unfortunately, this report is wrong on the facts, falsely asserting that middle class New Yorkers who share their space are responsible for the rising cost of housing in New York… Pandering to the powerful by attacking middle class families won't do a thing to make New York more affordable.

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