[Merriam Webster defines PONTIFICATING : to officiate as a pontiff.] Alas, Catholic Pontifical understanding of the unique male-female nature and union of holy matrimony is the same as witnessed in The Bible. As this is NOT even in conflict with the Chick-fil-A CEO's Baptist faith, asserting that > could have been expressed in a less inflammatory manner for Catholic readers. Sure, it is virtually certain that no offense was ever intended by Star Parker. But in this "incendiary" context it could have been less curiously expressed or not at all.