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What Makes a Pope a Man? May 19, 2025
Following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, last year’s Conclave became a timely film. Edward Berger’s movie offers a full view into the historically secretive process of selecting the Roman pontiff. Featuring a star-studded cast, the film provi...
The American Pope May 19, 2025
When Cardinal Dominique Mamberti appeared on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica last Thursday, there was a real possibility that the man he would announce as the new pope would represent a geographic first for the Catholic Church. Among the ...
Our First American Pope May 14, 2025
“The pope is American!” I cried, a few minutes after the telltale plume of white smoke billowed out from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. The College of Cardinals had chosen its new pontiff.“The pope is from Chicago! He’s named Bob!” I wailed, refr...
Pope Leo’s Challenge May 12, 2025
There was a Pope Leo who saved Rome from Attila the Hun. And a Pope Leo who worked miracles and toured Europe fighting corruption. But presumably neither of them was uppermost in the thoughts of the mild-mannered administrator Robert Prevost, who has...
The American Pope May 09, 2025
On March 2, 1848, Lewis Charles Levin, an irascible Pennsylvania congressman, took to the floor of the House of Representatives to warn his colleagues of an encroaching menace: the papacy. With a flair that would not have disgraced the pulpit of a fr...
Why Conclave Still Enchants Us May 09, 2025
For the Catholic faithful, there are always opportunities to offer up suffering, and that includes listening to BBC commentators talking about the new pope. In the dead space between billowing white smoke and the announcement of Pope Leo XIV yesterda...
The Pedagogic Life May 07, 2025
How does one teach a church of 1.4 billion people? That is, after all, part of the office of the Pope: the “ordinary universal magisterium,” that ponderous slab of Catholic theological Kunstsprache, is simply the Pope’s duty to teach the entire Catho...
