Just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo XIV, two papal biographers discussed the historic choice of the first pope from the United States. Drawing on their on-the-ground reporting in Rome, Austen Ivereigh and Christopher White took us inside the conclave and explored Vatican dynamics following Francis’ consequential pontificate.
Does Leo share Francis’ vision of the Catholic Church as a “field hospital” tending to the wounded? And what might our new pope and his priorities of defending the poor, solidarity with migrants, and concern for our environment signal for both the Church and the world?
Kim Daniels, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, moderated the dialogue.
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