Paul Elie

My latest: a brief interview, with CIVITUS (@CIVICUSAlliance), out of Buenos Aires, about the prospects for Pope Leo's pontificate https://t.co/rgSjb1wN4D

My latest, a piece for The New Yorker's daily The Lede (@NewYorker) about Pope Leo and what his predecessor Francis called "a third world war in pieces"

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A “Pope of Peace”—a tag already being applied to Leo XIV in the Italian press—is what is needed, @Paul_R_Elie writes. “Peace can never have enough advocates in high places.” https://t.co/Nc6lIc22JC

My latest: a short piece for The New Yorker (@NewYorker), written from Rome and sent out with the magazine's daily newsletter shortly after Robert Francis Prevost was elected Pope and took the name Leo XIV https://t.co/O5vuhkfl15

My latest: a brief reflection on a remarkable photograph the Jesuit priest and author @JamesMartinSJ took at the Vatican synod last October. The photo is an image of the Catholic future that Pope Francis brought near -- and that the next pope ought to carry forward

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On the Eve of the Conclave, a Peek Inside the Pope’s Last Grand Gathering https://t.co/wRWZsq64YB

About THE LAST SUPPER -- out from FSG (@fsgbooks) May 27 -- @vanityfair's David Friend is eloquent & generous: what author wouldn't be thrilled for his or her work to be described as "carved from Carrera marble" in a grand and storied magazine? https://t.co/CrWkYfcJlq

"I'd like to be Pope," Donald Trump told the thinned-out crowd in Michigan last night. Failing that, he thinks Cardinal Dolan could do the job. Not so long ago, Trump mused that he'd like to be President, and people took it as a joke . . .

My latest, for @newyorker: a personal & semi-polemical postcard from Rome, where I was ideally situated on a day for the ages: the day of the funeral for Pope Francis

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.@Paul_R_Elie reflects on Pope Francis’s achievement while watching his funeral: “He brought his personal openness and spontaneity to the entire Church. And he did so while remaining himself, a person not defined by the papal role.” https://t.co/PJ1xwABBW9

My latest: a short essay for the Georgetown Global Dialogues forum (@ggdialogues), in which I propose, inter alia, that Barack Obama should be the next president -- of Columbia University, his alma mater https://t.co/LTcp2qzRW6

My latest: I discuss Pope Francis's death and its implications for domestic and international politics with @tylerfoggatt on The Political Scene, a weekly podcast of The New Yorker https://t.co/DdJ0E1stNO

R.I.P. Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- Pope Francis -- 1936-2025. My Postscript essay, for The New Yorker (@newyorker), is found via the link below . . .

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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

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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

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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

My latest, for @newyorker: With Pope Francis diminished by illness and advancing age and the U.S. bishops timid in their response to the Trump administration's abrupt funding cuts, there's concern for the Church's witness against a vengeful and capricious chief executive . . .

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The two dominant stories of Catholicism in the United States—an ailing Pope, and the long-standing Catholic commitment to helping the vulnerable—have converged in the weeks leading up to Easter. https://t.co/USiMKdMNna

So looking forward to leading a conversation with the sublime photographer Holger Thoss (@holgerthoss) at NYU's Deutsches Haus @deutscheshausNY) this Wednesday https://t.co/vY9Xuu8uiS

"An in-depth exploration of a turbulent time in American culture that seemed obsessed with secular freedom . . . but in fact was shot through with noncanonical religious fervor.” THE LAST SUPPER is due from @fsgbooks in May. Interview in @PublishersWkly: https://t.co/p3tGgAUdW7

Really pleased to welcome Carlos Lozada (@CarlosNYT) to Old North today -- looking forward to our in-class discussion of THE WASHINGTON BOOK and our public conversation. The latter will begin at 4:30. https://t.co/n8aMIrvT3s

Through papal trips, funerals, and conclaves, "the papacy has become the center of both Catholic vitality and Catholic controversy" - I observe in this @newyorker essay. So too have sickness-and-health vigils like those for Pope Francis under way now