by Steve Harmon | May 14, 2025 | Opinion
I’m writing this dispatch from the Rome airport while waiting for my flight home to North Carolina. I’m filled with gratitude for everything I’ve experienced over the past several days, and I’m hopeful about what these events might mean for the Catholic Church and the...
by Jamie Marich | May 13, 2025 | Opinion
“We have a Pope!” my mother, a lifelong and devoted Catholic, texted me at 12:13 p.m. ET on Thursday. I was in the middle of teaching a course when I caught a glimpse of her text. My heart skipped with excitement. The formal announcement of Robert Prevost as Pope Leo...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
I was invited to speak at “Creation Day & the Nicaea Centenary: Crystallizing the Ecumenical Dream of the New Liturgical Feast” in Assisi, held May 5–7. The ecumenical conference aimed to advance a Season of Creation within the broader Christian body, so we might...
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 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...
