Update: the current consensus appears to be "habent papem." Can anyone confirm that? (I got a C in my one semester of Latin, and cattitude isn't home to ask.)
The Latin version of the familiar term 'Pope' is, according to Wikipedia, papa, though Lord knows how that declines. But I suspect in Latin they stick much more to good old fashioned pontifex, sepecially in anything official.
Papa is first declension, one of the rare masculine first declension nouns, so if one was going to use that word, one would indeed say papam habent. But I don't think they would.
Well, the elementary Latin dictionary has nothing for "papa", only "papai" meaning "how strange!" and "pappas," a tutor, both of which are glossed first with Greek equivalents.
That may be, but I wouldn't trust a classical Latin dictionary with church Latin any more than I'd use a Shakespearean concordance to make sense of rap lyrics.
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