Associates Newsletter Notes, Spring 2025


The First Twenty-Four Hours

 

Massimo Faggioli’s assessment of Francis and his papacy, Massimo Faggioli, “Francis’s Church?”, April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/pope-francis-catholic-church-legacy

 

The annual Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Address, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, “The Living Vein of Compassion,” April 2025

Read the piece: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/living-vein-compassion

Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scfsBYAEazw

 

Two collections about Francis and his legacy, “Sister Earth” and “Todos, Todos, Todos,” April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/sister-earth

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/todos-todos-todos

 

Special episode of the Commonweal Podcast with Massimo Faggioli, Susan Bigelow Reynolds, and Terence Sweeney, “Remembering Francis,” April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/remembering-francis

 

An essay about Francis’s chosen burial site, Vanessa R. Corcoran, “Returning to His Mother’s Home,” April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/returning-his-mothers-home

 

Former Synod on Synodality fellow César “C.J.” Baldelomar on ‘Laudato si’’, C.J. Baldelomar, “Good Teacher,” April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-pope-reflection-baldelomar-good-teacher

 

Rita Ferrone on Francis’s liturgical legacy, Rita Ferrone, “Francis’s Liturgical Legacy,” May 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/franciss-liturgical-legacy

 

Paul Lakeland’s reflection on Pope Francis, Paul Lakeland, “Perfect Love Casts Out Fear,” April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/francis-pope-love-fear-death-human-lakeland

 

 

Loud and Clear

 

Massimo Faggioli on NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’, “Why the Catholic Church's future is hard to predict, according to a Vatican expert,” April 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5371542/pope-francis-catholic-church-future

 

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly’s pre-conclave piece for MSNBC, Mollie Wilson O’Reilly, “The next pope? You wouldn’t know him.” May 2025

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/conclave-pope-francis-successor-unknown-cardinal-rcna204292

 

Paul Moses joined Errol Louis on NY1’s “Inside City Hall,” “Writer remembers the life of Pope Francis,” April 2025

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2025/04/22/writer-remembers-the-life-of-pope-francis

 

Natalia Imperatori-Lee featured in CNN, “Natalia Imperatori-Lee Discusses Women’s Ordination and Francis’s Legacy in CNN” April 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/natalia-imperatori-lee-discusses-womens-ordination-and-franciss-legacy-cnn

 

Austen Ivereigh’s papal prediction on CBS ‘Sunday Morning,’ “The groundbreaking election of the first American Pope,” May 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sRNntpeEQg

 

César “C.J.” Baldelomar on KNTV, “Conclave to elect new pope begins: What you need to know,” May 2025

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/conclave-new-pope-what-to-know/3863036/ 

 

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly and David Gibson on the Brian Lehrer Show, “New Pope, New Era for Catholics,” May 2025

https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-pope-new-era-for-catholics/

 

Paul Moses on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” to discuss the new pope, “Looking into the future of the Catholic Church under Pope Leo XIV,” May 2025

https://ny1.com/nyc/crime-safety/inside-city-hall/2025/05/08/looking-into-the-future-of-the-catholic-church-under-pope-leo-xiv

 

 

‘Habemus blogem’

 

The “Interregnum Report,” 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/interregnum-report

 

Miles Doyle posted about a Chicago-born cardinal, future pope, “Interregnum Report, Thursday Afternoon, May 1,” May 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/interregnum-report

 

 

Commonweal in the World

 

Ellen B. Koneck facilitated a panel at The Way Forward conference, Michael Sean Winters “Catholic Leaders Gather to Unpack ‘Fratelli Tutti,’” March 2025
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-voices/catholic-leaders-gather-unpack-fratelli-tutti

 

Franco Family Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Common Good at Notre Dame 

https://franco.nd.edu/

 

The annual Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Address delivered by Bishop Mark J. Seitz, April 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scfsBYAEazw

 

Adaptation of Common Cause Address in Commonweal, Bishop Mark J. Seitz, “The Living Vein of Compassion,” June 2025

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/living-vein-compassion

 

Interview with Bishop Mark J. Seitz, Dominic Preziosi and Kenneth L. Woodward, “‘We Need to Talk About People,’” May 2025
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishop-seitz-mark-deportations-migration-woodward-preziosi

 

Claudia Avila Cosnahan participates in dialogue in Washington D.C., “The Latino Catholic Voice in a Divided Nation: Directions Forward in Challenging Times,” May 2025

https://youtu.be/PLLlKF_nBTU?si=O8dnrVBuNdam7cJK

 

Claudia Avila Cosnahan participates in Praxis of Encounter conference at the University of San Francisco, May 2025
https://rsvp.usfca.edu/event/praxis-of-encounter/summary