| The assembly of the Synod of Bishops just concluded had a unique feature: Convoked by John Paul II and led by his successor, Benedict XVI, it linked two pontificates. |
| In Rome this custom prevailed, at least since the pontificates of xystus and Telesphorus. |
| Both Pius XI and Pius XII had pontificates that built upon the concordats begun under Benedict. |
| A man pontificates and points with a pipe. |
| Instead, she gets up and pontificates on an issue on which we have already provided the answers. |
| The negotiations here cannot be treated as a unity, for they extend over six or seven years, cover two pontificates, and appear frigid and feverish by turns. |
