A New Pope! What Now? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

A New Pope! What Now? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Last Thursday, all of the Dominican student brothers here at the House of Studies jammed together to watch the reveal of a new pope. We were not alone. The whole world trained its eyes on a balcony in Rome. And after some waiting—and some more waiting—there emerged Leo XIV, the 267th Pope, the Successor of Saint Peter, the Vicar of Christ. The Church and the world had their eyes on one spot, one person, elevated in a moment of thanksgiving and p…