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January 16, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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I’m still trying to take it all in!  The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV was an extraordinary and delightful surprise.  I was one of the many commentators who said that the choice of an American as Pope was an impossibility (or at least extreme improbability).  I took my cue from the late Cardinal George who said that there would never be an American Pope until our country went into political decline. But the Cardinal electors obviously felt otherwise. I am very intrigued by the new Pope’s choice of regnal name.  Leo XIII has long been one of my papal heroes.  He not only inaugurated the modern social teaching tradition of the Church, but he also gave rise to the revival of Thomistic thought as a means of creative engagement with the contemporary world.  There is actually much in Leo’s teaching that would appeal to both liberals and conservatives today, and this might signal how this new Leo will function as a bridge.   And he’s a Chicagoan!  Ad multos annos, Pope Leo.
May 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM