Paul Elie
Writer at Freelance
Georgetown senior fellow, @newyorker contributor, @FSGBooks alum, author of THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN and REINVENTING BACH
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Paul Elie
From the daily newsletter: a dispatch from Vatican City, where the Pope was laid to rest today.
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3 weeks ago |
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Elie
The Last Supper, in the Christian scheme of things, is both an end and a beginning: the end of Jesus’ time with his disciples, and the beginning of the religion established with the breaking of bread and the pouring out of wine. The early eighties were both an end and a beginning, at least where the place of religion in American life is concerned.
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3 weeks ago |
catholicoutlook.org | Paul Elie
It doesn’t seem that long ago that Benedict XVI resigned unexpectedly—the first Pope to do so in six centuries—and Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected Pope.
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3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Paul Elie
Pope Francis smiled a lot, easily and broadly. He thrived on direct, informal encounters: phone calls, penned notes, hugs, audiences with small groups. He was impatient with protocol: he carried his own overnight bag, bused his own tray at the cafeteria, and answered reporters’ questions in his own words, extemporaneously. He was attentive, determined, testy, mercurial, sometimes deliberate, sometimes in a hurry, hard to read, and hard to pin down.
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3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Paul Elie
Every morning, a line forms at about six outside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, on West Thirty-first Street, near Penn Station, as it has done (with a few exceptions) since 1930; on average, there are two hundred and fifty people, mostly men in various states of need. At seven, a bell is rung and meal bags—people can choose from oatmeal, fruit, a sandwich, nuts, juice, and coffee—are distributed by half a dozen volunteers standing at folding tables set up on the sidewalk.
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R.I.P. Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- Pope Francis -- 1936-2025. My Postscript essay, for The New Yorker (@newyorker), is found via the link below . . .
Pope Francis has died at age 88. Through sheer personableness, he brought the papacy down to earth, and throughout his tenure remained a man who wasn’t defined by his role. https://t.co/hl87LswsfN
"It is clear that the approach of the current U.S. administration is very different from what we are used to and, especially in the west, from what we have relied on for many years." --Vatican secretary of state Pietro Parolin to @LaRepubblica_it prior to meeting with J.D. Vance
Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but with him ailing, the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new ways to sustain its commitments. https://t.co/49IOKCyUl1
In February J.D. Vance spoke at the Nat'l Catholic Prayer Breakfast, then went straight to the Oval Office to help Donald Trump ambush Ukraine's president Zelensky -- a real reason to fear Vance will turn any visit with Pope Francis this weekend into a Trumpian pressure campaign
The recent closure of the Catholic bishops’ refugee-resettlement program suggests the precarity of a Church led by an ailing pontiff and put under pressure to accommodate itself to a government’s way of doing things. https://t.co/fiXUnxfvYD
