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Pope Leo Is Notable for Reasons You Might Not Expect

4 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Katherine Kelaidis

The first American pope – Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV – has been elected, a mere 249 years after the founding of the nation. Source link
Robert Prevost: What election of first American pope means for Catholics

1 month ago | vox.com | Katherine Kelaidis

The first American pope — Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, Pope Leo XIV — has been elected, a mere 249 years after the founding of the nation. Though Prevost had been occasionally floated as an outside contender in recent days, he was not among the top candidates, who were widely seen to be Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle from the Philippines or Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state.
The first American pope is not about America at all

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Katherine Kelaidis

6 hours agoCardinal Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope, choosing the name Leo XIVVATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope, becoming the first pontiff from the United States. He chose the name Pope Leo XIV.
The Conclave Is Here. But Another Church Is Making a Decision That Will Be Just as Consequential.

1 month ago | slate.com | Katherine Kelaidis

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The Conclave Is Huge for the Future of the World. There’s Another Choice Coming That Rivals It.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Katherine Kelaidis

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The next pope: who will succeed Pope Francis? | Vox

1 month ago | vox.com | Katherine Kelaidis

The political balancing act at the heart of the new conclave.
Pope Francis is dead. The Church must now confront an uncomfortable truth.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Katherine Kelaidis

If you wrote a novel in which the first Latin American pope died on Easter Monday — which happened to fall on — it would be rejected by any decent editor. But that is precisely what has happened. Pope Francis, a symbol for many of the possibility of a more compassionate Christianity, has died. The apostolic throne of St. Peter is now empty.
Why America's Greek Orthodox leader needs Trump on his side

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Katherine Kelaidis

(RNS) — In September Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, will travel from Istanbul to the United States to collect his Templeton Prize.
Elon Musk’s Cruel Moral Sentiments

2 months ago | publicseminar.org | David Williams |John Stoehr |Justin Joque |Katherine Kelaidis

The Raising of Lazarus (1619) | Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public DomainElon Musk may or may not be “the world’s richest man” these days, depending on the wildly fluctuating value of his Tesla car company, a target for those protesting Musk’s “move fast, break stuff” approach to downsizing the federal bureaucracy through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
JD Vance and the hidden religious divide erupting into politics

2 months ago | vox.com | Katherine Kelaidis

Less than a week after becoming vice president, JD Vance, only the second Catholic to hold the office, had a very public break with the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in America. Without evidence, the second-in-command accused the US Conference of Catholic Bishops of settling “illegal immigrants” in order to access federal funds.