Scott Richert

3 days ago | todayscatholic.org | Scott Richert

Throughout the course of my lifetime, the Catholic Church has had six popes – St. Paul VI, John Paul I, St. John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV. Paul VI was pope when I was born, and I cannot say that I remember the elections of either John Paul I or John Paul II, though growing up in a Catholic household in a small village with a significant Catholic population, we must have been on the lookout for the first wisp of white smoke.

4 days ago | oursundayvisitor.com | Scott Richert

John Paul II went on to become one of the longest reigning popes in the history of the Church, long enough for me to have graduated from elementary school, junior high, high school, college and graduate school, and to be 10 years into my professional career before his years of suffering — through which he gave such a perfect example to Catholics and all Christians — came to an end.

3 weeks ago | news.diocesetucson.org | Scott Richert

In a casual aside in an article two or three years into Pope Francis' pontificate, and a year or two before I came to Our Sunday Visitor, I wrote that the Holy Father was not (as both his supporters and detractors claimed) the first "Third World Pope" or "Pope from the Global South" but rather a thoroughly European and even Italian one.

1 month ago | catholicreview.org | Scott Richert

In a casual aside in an article two or three years into Pope Francis’ pontificate, and a year or two before I came to Our Sunday Visitor, I wrote that the Holy Father was not (as both his supporters and detractors claimed) the first “Third World Pope” or “Pope from the Global South” but rather a thoroughly European and even Italian one.

1 month ago | osvnews.com | Scott Richert

2 In a casual aside in an article two or three years into Pope Francis’ pontificate, and a year or two before I came to Our Sunday Visitor, I wrote that the Holy Father was not (as both his supporters and detractors claimed) the first “Third World Pope” or “Pope from the Global South” but rather a thoroughly European and even Italian one.