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Rome’s Mario Cuomo Is Gone
The Vatican announced May 19 that Baldassare Cardinal Reina would become the grand chancellor of the John…
The Popecast
The editors discuss the first days of the pontificate of Leo XIV, the first American pope. Then,…
Pope Francis’s Muddled Mercy
Pope Francis began a Jubilee of Mercy in 2015, and now, in the aftermath of his death,…
The Two Leos
Pope Leo XIV has explained that his choice of regnal name is an homage to Pope Leo…
David Tracy’s Theological Missteps
The Catholic Church in the United States has lost a great theologian with the recent death of…
Liberal Integralists
Eight years ago, Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State was described in these pages as “the…
Hopes for a New Pontificate
Within a few hours of the election of Pope Leo XIV and his masterful presentation of himself…
Julian of Norwich’s Radical Trust
Yesterday was the feast day of the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich (circa 1342–after 1416). Although she…
A Leonine Revival
We are still in the early days of the pontificate of Leo XIV. No one who prognosticates…
Letters from Rome 2025, No. 9—A New Pontificate
One of the numerous pathologies infecting today’s communications ecosystem is Instant Analysis Syndrome, which has been raging…
Francis in Full
By common consensus, Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio won the papacy by means of an intervention he made…
The Next Pope
As I write, the Chair of St. Peter sits empty. It’s difficult to assess the significance of…
Pope Leo XIV, Builder of Bridges
History has demonstrated once again that those who enter the Sistine Chapel as “future popes” often leave…
Leo XIV and the Best-Case Scenario
The philosopher Michael Oakeshott, the leading conservative thinker of his generation, regarded politics with distaste; he voted…
Newman, Augustine, and Leo XIV
The day the conclave opened, as the cardinals were swearing their solemn oath, I came upon a…
