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May 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Somebody Warn the New Pope: JD Vance Is Trying to Buddy Up to Him
Let’s hope this pope doesn’t inexplicably drop dead right after meeting the U.S. vice president.
May 12, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Did Trump Just Try to Take Credit for the New Pope?
Pope Leo XIV is the first American pope in history. Donald Trump apparently thinks that’s his own doing.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
We Just Got a New Pope—and MAGA Is Already Losing Its Mind
MAGA is in full meltdown mode over the new pope’s tweets.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“Take a Joke”: Trump Mocks Catholics Upset Over Image of Him as Pope
Trump insulted Catholics who were offended by the weird AI photo he shared of himself as the pope.
April 21, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Did JD Vance Kill the Pope? An Investigation.
Pope Francis passed away shortly after meeting with Vice President JD Vance.
August 4, 2015
Naomi Shavin
Why an Indie Press in Brooklyn Is Publishing the Pope
April 1, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Crackdown Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Causing More Migrants to Die
March 13, 2013
Michael Sean Winters
White Smoke Is Good News for Cardinal Scola
A short conclave increases the odds the archbishop of Milan will be pope
April 9, 2008
Michael Sean Winters
Family Values
What the pope can teach Democrats about immigration
November 13, 2006
Damon Linker
The Pope's real enemy.; Cross Purposes
October 30, 1995
Jennifer Bradley
Indulgences
A dispatch from Pope John Paul II's spectacle-filled visit to Camden Yards in 1995
September 6, 1993
Robin Chotzinoff
John Denver
A papal postcard from Denver, Colorado
October 5, 1987
Andrew Sullivan
Papa Do Preach
Andrew Sullivan goes to see Pope John Paul II in San Antonio, Texas
October 20, 1979
Thomas Geoghegan
Popestock in Chicago
John Paul's winning battle in a losing war
October 6, 1979
The New Republic
Susie and the Pope
September 2, 1978
William F. Buckley
The Pope I Want
A consumer speaks out.
October 16, 1965
Murray Kempton
The Pope Among Us

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