Vatican Dispatch | A Prayer for Pope Leo XIV

Vatican Dispatch | A Prayer for Pope Leo XIV

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...
Witnessing History: A Presbyterian at the Vatican

Witnessing History: A Presbyterian at the Vatican

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...
Dispatch from the Vatican | Who Might Become Pope?

Dispatch from the Vatican | Who Might Become Pope?

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...