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Pope and change. Bergoglio, 76, reportedly got the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election, and he has long specialized in the kind of pastoral work that some say is an...
View ArticleVideo: Vatican Dispatch
Signals. (VATICAN CITY) It’s been three days since I’ve been able to tape a Vatican Dispatch, thanks to enhanced security measures at the Vatican during the conclave and the election of Pope Francis...
View ArticleChina to Pope Francis: You’re not running things here, pal
The Vatican “must stop interfering in China’s internal affairs, including in the name of religion.” George Weigel notes in his book Evangelical Catholicism that the popes of this era have more control...
View ArticleVideo: Will Pope Francis go left on economics?
Plus, two views on Curia reform, and how a rumor got propagated in the media. (VATICAN CITY) Of all the questions I’ve fielded since the election of former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope...
View ArticleOpen thread: Sunday morning talking heads
Budgets. This morning brings a grab bag: A little pope analysis, a bit of navel-gazing over CPAC and the future of the GOP, and a whole lot of yakking about the new Democratic and Republican...
View ArticleVideo: Media meets Pope Francis in first public papal audience; Update: Video...
“Don't forget the poor!” (VATICAN CITY) Pope Francis gave his first public audience yesterday morning, speaking for twelve minutes to some of the gathered media and a few of their guests. As you will...
View ArticleVideo: Pope Francis’ Angelus blessing, plus shots of the crowd
Plus, Cardinal George to David Gregory: "The categories you use are conservative and liberal ... our categories are what is true and what is false.” (VATICAN CITY) Earlier today, Pope Francis offered...
View ArticleInstallation Mass of Pope Francis: Scenes from the jailbreak; Update: 200K...
Reminiscing. (VATICAN CITY) It’s 2013, and it’s 6:15 in the morning in Rome, but the scene puts me right back to the 2011 beatification of John Paul II. Transportation services stop well short of...
View ArticleCNN: Obama approval drops to 47/50
Gun-control support ebbing fast. The latest CNN poll has bad news, more bad news, and then even more bad news for Barack Obama. The first set of bad news come on his approval rating, which has...
View ArticleVideo: Pope Francis breaks with Maundy Thursday tradition, will wash feet of...
Pastoral. For Christians around the world, Holy Week observances begin in earnest today, as the Last Supper is commemorated in the run-up to Easter. For many Christian communities, including the...
View ArticlePope Francis to Vatican: Get tough on abusers immediately
"Act decisively as far as cases of sexual abuse are concerned." Pope Francis told the media in his first general audience (which I attended) that he deliberately selected his papal name as a reference...
View ArticlePope on gay priests: “If someone is gay, who searches for the Lord and has...
Catechism. It’s a testament to how much goodwill Francis has earned already as Pope that the media’s focusing on what he said about welcoming gay priests into the clergy, not what he said right after...
View ArticleBreaking: Pope opposes abortion
Priorities. Yes, I’m being facetious with that headline. After watching the media demonstrate their lack of comprehension of the Catholic Church yet again this week, the LifeNews update on Pope...
View ArticleMedia can’t seem to get enough of Pope it can’t understand
The Vatican warns Pelosi that the rules still apply. The media narrative of Pope Francis as a rules-free Pontiff who wants to change the doctrine and dogma in the Catholic Church took a bit of a hit...
View ArticlePopes John XXIII, John Paul II to be canonized April 27th
Two giants of Vatican II reunited. Two of the great figures of the Second Vatican Council will be canonized on the same day next year. The Vatican announced that they will add Popes John Paul II and...
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Manifesto. Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny” and beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his...
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Inequality. The pope’s words are ones that so far have been on the margins of the political debate. Many liberals here and abroad have challenged the wisdom of cutting taxes on the wealthy and...
View ArticlePope Francis and the media: Missing the forest for a couple of trees
Subsidiarity, solidarity, and the actual point behind Evangelii Gaudium. After reading the gasps of despair from some of my fellow conservatives over Pope Francis’ remarks in his apostolic exhortation...
View ArticleVatican: Lots of people exploiting Pope Francis for their own ideological...
Papal sound-biting. Well, if Allahpundit gets to write a post about a statue of Satan arriving in Oklahoma, let’s open up a thread nearer the other end of the spectrum. For Catholics around the world,...
View ArticleInevitable: Obama to meet soon with Pope Francis
Equality. Makes sense. One’s the leader of a messianic religious movement that’s recently been hobbled by scandal, the other’s Pope Francis. I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t happened already. Secretary...
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