Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer? - First Things

Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer? - First Things

Like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their new pope. Conservatives take heart that he wore the red mozzetta that Pope Francis had spurned and sings the Regina Caeli in Latin. Progressives hang their hats on his repeated assurances that he will continue efforts toward greater synodality and the fact that he took the name of a pope best known for his social teaching. All this is i…

Minnesota bishop explains how Pope Leo XIV could shape a new era for the Catholic Church AlphaNews.org

Share This Story(The Daily Signal) — Catholic Bishop Robert Barron was live on NBC News last month when white smoke began billowing from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney, signifying the election of a new pope. The quick decision by the College of Cardinals caught Barron by surprise, he recounted on a recent podcast episode, requiring him to sprint across Rome with his signature Panama hat for a promised interview with Fox News. The ever-present Barr…

Bishop Barron Explains How Pope Leo XIV Could Shape A New Era For Catholic Church

By Philip Roberts & Rob Bluey, The Daily Signal | June 22, 2025 Catholic Bishop Robert Barron was live on NBC News last month when white smoke began billowing from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney, signifying the election of a new pope. The quick decision by the College of Cardinals caught Barron by surprise, he recounted on a recent podcast episode, requiring him to sprint across Rome with his signature Panama hat for a promised interview with Fox …

Bishop Barron Explains How Pope Leo XIV Could Shape a New Era for Catholic Church

Catholic Bishop Robert Barron was live on NBC News last month when white smoke began billowing from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney, signifying the election of a new pope. The quick decision by the College of Cardinals caught Barron by surprise, he recounted on a recent podcast episode, requiring him to sprint across Rome with his signature Panama hat for a promised interview with Fox News. The ever-present Barron made regular TV appearances on ABC…

The Second Pope from the Americas - The Living Church

About 30 South American women gathered for a Zoom session May 8, focused on economic development. The women, from the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, were planning their participation in COP30, the United Nations’ gathering on climate crisis, scheduled for this November in Belém, Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. But the women wanted to talk about something else and they paused their political planning. The new pope, Cardinal Robert Pre…

A Peruvian designer: in charge of revitalizing the Vatican's digital heart - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.23.2025).- When white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney on May 8, 2025, announcing the election of Pope Leo XIV, another was about to be announced unveiled to the world: a complete redesign of vatican.va, the official website of the Holy See. Behind its serene blues and dignified beiges was an unlikely figure—Juan Carlos Ytō Kiyan, a Peruvian designer whose artistic journey took a divine turn at the edge of a …