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
Paul Moses joined Errol Louis on NY1’s “Inside City Hall,” “Writer remembers the life of Pope Francis,” April 2025
Natalia Imperatori-Lee featured in CNN, “Natalia Imperatori-Lee Discusses Women’s Ordination and Francis’s Legacy in CNN” April 2025
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
‘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
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