The Dispatch
My unplanned week in Rome for a papal election
A week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming. But I [...]
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost elected as 267th pope, takes name Leo XIV
Features
Vatican City, May 8, 2025 / 12:11 pm Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. White smoke rose from the chimney [...]
Cardinal Francis George’s timely and timeless vision for the Church
Books
Holy Thursday, April 17, marked the tenth anniversary of Cardinal Francis George’s death after a lengthy battle with cancer. In the past decade, Catholics—especially American Catholics—have suffered from his absence. With his keen intellect, deep [...]
Features
Bishop Nfon says faith continues to grow in Cameroon amid a separatist crisis
The Catholic bishop of the Kumba Diocese, a region in northwestern Cameroon deeply affected by separatist violence, has reaffirmed that faith continues to thrive despite the ongoing crisis. Bishop Agapitus Enuyehnyoh Nfon made these remarks [...]
Essay
Peter’s Duty: Papal Authority and the Restoration of Ecclesial Order
In an age of radical individualism and ideological rebellion against every form of authority, the Catholic tradition offers a necessary and urgent corrective. Rooted in Sacred Scripture, developed by the Fathers of the Church, refined [...]
Features
Cardinal Müller reflects on pilgrimage, evangelization, and following Christ
Rome (kath.net) Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller was invited by the organizers of the 2024 pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres to celebrate the concluding high mass in Chartres Cathedral and to give the sermon. Over 18,000 [...]
Chapp's Schtick
Business as usual is untenable
One thing keeps rattling around in my head as I travel around Rome and chat with various folks: the sense that there is a “business as usual” air about the election of the next pope. [...]
Essay
The Next Pope
As the Cardinals prepare for perhaps the most important days of their lives, let us, the faithful, keep them in our prayers in a fervent way. The devil is no doubt at work trying to [...]
Analysis
Challenges facing the conclave
Like it or not, the Church is a power structure—at least that she has a divinely given hierarchical power structure—and the cardinal electors are the ones who must choose the man to sit atop it, [...]
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One thing keeps rattling around in my head as I travel around Rome and chat with various folks: the sense that there is a “business as usual” air about the election of the next pope. [...] -
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The 2024 elections are now two weeks in the rear-view mirror, but the conversations (to use a polite word) over the what, why, and how of November 5, 2024, continue. While there is no shortage [...] -
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La Scienza nella Chiesa: dal chimico Papa Francesco al Matematico Papa Leone XIV - Gravita Zero: comunicazione scientifica e istituzionale:
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Peter D. Beaulieu:
Unlike the cheering in St. Peter's Piazza, does this sounds too much like some hometown crowd cheering a home-grown basketball…
DiogenesRedux:
Pope Leo has lived 2/3 of his life OUTSIDE OF THE USA. Someone please explain to me how "American" is…
