Bill Duryea

5 days ago | politico.com | Michael Kruse |Bill Duryea

It’s been said an American has never been chosen pope because the United States already holds such sway over the world politically, culturally and economically, that it would be too much to give an American immense religious power as well. No doubt, Leo’s global influence will be measured constantly by the church’s more than 1 billion adherents.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Michael Kruse |Bill Duryea

Seventeen popes have presided over the Catholic Church since the founding of the United States. None of those men was from America. That changed Thursday when Robert Francis Prevost, son of Chicago’s South Side, emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and spoke, in Italian, the words: “La pace sia con tutti voi.” Peace be with you all.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Bill Duryea

POLITICO’s newsroom experts make sense of the whirlwind we’re all still trying to process. Illustrations by Bill Kuchman/POLITICO (source images via Getty Images and AP) Let’s face it. No one in politics today has lived through a first 100 days like the one Donald Trump just dropped on the country.