by Steve Harmon | May 9, 2025 | News
My last contribution to Good Faith Media before the conclave opened on Wednesday addressed the question, “Who Might Become Pope?” We now have the answer to that question. Robert Francis Prevost, age 69, was born in Chicago. He has been a cardinal serving as prefect of...
by Steve Harmon | May 8, 2025 | News
The first day of the papal conclave featured an initial round of voting by the cardinal electors. It ended, unsurprisingly, with black smoke issuing from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. (The shortest conclave ever was in 1939, when Pope Pius XII was elected early...
by Steve Harmon | May 7, 2025 | Opinion
It’s Wednesday, March 7, the day the conclave to select the successor to Pope Francis commences. At 10:00 a.m. (4:00 a.m. EST), Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, led a public Mass “Pro Eligendo Pontifice” (“For the Election of the...
by Steve Harmon | May 6, 2025 | News
Monday was my first full day in Rome, where I am covering the papal conclave that convenes this Wednesday afternoon. It began with the requisite caffeinated fuel for the day from the best place in Rome to get it: Sant’ Eustachio Il Caffè. In God’s providence, this is...
by Steve Harmon | May 5, 2025 | News, Opinion
I arrived in Rome Sunday morning to a city still mourning the death of Pope Francis. My taxi from the Termini train station took me past a video billboard spanning half the façade of a downtown building that proclaimed, “ROME EMBRACES POPE FRANCIS WITH LOVE.” People...
