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Douthat: Does a safe pair of hands mean an Italian? A member of the curia? Cardinal Parolin? Dougherty: I have nothing against Italians, but I hope not. It’s hard not to dread Cardinal Parolin because he seems comfortable with the chaos of the last decade. Douthat: Dan, your choice or prediction? Hitchens: It’s the hardest…
Even before Pope Francis was entombed in a Rome basilica on Saturday, conservative cardinals who felt his pontificate was a divisive disaster that endangered the church’s traditions had begun politicking to sway the conclave electing the next pope. They have a seductively simple slogan: unity. It is hard to imagine a less offensive rallying cry,…
Pope Francis greets people as he attends the weekly general audience in St. Peter’s square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023. Guglielmo Mangiapane | Reuters Tributes and condolences poured in from around the world following news of the death of Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday at the age of 88. Francis, who was…
A respiratory crisis suffered by Pope Francis on Friday during his two-week hospitalization for pneumonia has added urgency to a delicate, and uncomfortable, question worrying many in the church: What would happen if the pope remains in critical condition for an extended period, with his health worsening, his faculties fading, his quality of life deteriorating?…
Roman Catholics worldwide prayed for Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition, at Mass on Sunday after the Vatican announced that he was “not out of danger.” The 88-year-old pontiff went into the hospital on Feb. 14 with an infection that developed into pneumonia in both lungs. He had a long “asthmatic respiratory crisis”…
The Rev. Richard Williamson, a priest affiliated with a breakaway Catholic sect who caused a scandal in the church over his antisemitic statements and Holocaust denial, and who was excommunicated twice by the Vatican, died on Wednesday in Margate, England. He was 84. His death, after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, was confirmed by the schismatic…
