Jason DeRose
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It's Been a Minute · Are you pope-pilled? Here's your guide to the 2025 Conclave. · 2 May 2025
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The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, has launched a project called Conclave Watch to track what cardinals have done or not done to clean up abuse. SNAP's Sarah Pearson says the church should do more to change the culture of deference that excused abuse against But she also points out Pope Francis allowed bishops and cardinals to be investigated for abuse or cover-up.
Conclave Watch includes the formal reports SNAP has sent to the Vatican, along with any supporting evidence the group has gathered. Jason DeRose, NPR News, Rome.
Taking part in the burial rite is former Los Angeles Archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahoney. Court documents show Mahoney actively participated in the clergy's sex abuse cover-up by moving accused priests in order to avoid law enforcement. The archdiocese ended up paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement money to victims.
Mahoney's successor later barred him from public ministry in Los Angeles. Victims and their advocates say Mahoney's participation in the burial is shameful and indicates the church hasn't learned enough from its errors in handling clergy sex abuse. Jason DeRose, NPR News, Rome.
The Vatican News Agency says the cause of Pope Francis' death has been identified as a stroke, followed by a coma and irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse. The director of the Vatican's health office issued the official certification. According to the medical report, the pope had a prior history of acute respiratory failure caused by double pneumonia, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.
Earlier this year, Francis was hospitalized for more than a month due to pneumonia. As late as Sunday, he attended Easter Mass and met with world leaders and the faithful at the Vatican. Pope Francis was 88 years old. Jason DeRose, NPR News.
Well, I think of a number of issues that he addressed during the 12 years that he was pope. Immigrants and refugees, the environment, politics, and gender and LGBTQ plus issues. In the area of immigrants, early in his papacy, he took a trip to the island of Lampedusa to highlight the plight of refugees in North Africa.
Francis also traveled to the island of Lesbos to highlight refugees from the Middle East. He talked about refugees being especially close to the heart of God. And he reminded people of the biblical story that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, shortly after Jesus' birth, had to flee from Bethlehem to Egypt because King Herod wanted to kill Jesus.
And he even drew attention to migrants and refugees right before the U.S. election, saying that U.S. Catholics should think about things like immigration in addition to issues such as abortion when they go to the polls.
Well, that's right. In other areas, such as the environment. His first solo encyclical of his papacy was focused on the environment. It was about care for creation, which he said God created as good. And, you know, he focused on the environment because the poorest of the earth are most directly affected by environmental degradation. This was all connected for him.
Desertification, flooding led to famine and poverty. and people being displaced. And that leads to a global migrant crisis. So that leads back to his interest and concern about immigrants. In the area of politics, he weighed in just earlier this year, you know, when Vice President J.D.
Vance tried to say that Catholic teaching was to care for your family and your community before caring for others. And Pope Francis really called him to task for that. He said, care is not about concentric circles, that a Christian cares for the most in need first. And that means one should focus on migrants and refugees. Again, getting back to that theme of his.
Well, I think he'll be remembered as the first pope from the Americas, of course, the first pope from outside Europe in more than a thousand years. One of his legacies, I think, will be his openness to dialogue. You know, he just led this series of conversations within the church about how the church wants to exist, should exist, and should talk to itself, listen to the people in the pews.
It shouldn't be so top-down. but should be much more bottom-up. He had an amazing appeal to younger people. You know, when I would go out and talk to people of, you know, in their teens and 20s and early 30s, they really felt a connection to him. He was the pope of their life. I spoke with a number of younger Catholics who we'll hear from later today on All Things Considered about just that.
And then, you know, I also think of a return to the church. Many people who had left, say, under Christ, The previous pope, Pope Benedict, who was stricter, Francis brought them back to the church. He brought a great deal of openness to them.
You know, not just enormously popular among Catholics, but enormously popular with non-Catholics. He was a pastor first, and I think that really came through. A very different pope from Pope Benedict, who was much more top-down.
Nobody is willing to come to us and say this was wrong. This was a breach of security and we won't do it again.
Lifeway Research found the only place the conservative evangelical Christian group gained members was in New England, but only a tiny percentage of its congregations are based there. Elsewhere in the U.S., losses were significant. The analysis shows that between 2018 and 2023, Southern Baptist congregations on the West Coast shrank by 18%. In the Great Plains, congregations were down 15 percent.
And in the South, from Texas to Kentucky, where Southern Baptists are largely concentrated, congregations lost 8 percent of their membership. As with most Christian groups in the U.S., overall numbers have declined in recent decades. But Southern Baptists are still the largest Protestant group in the country, with roughly 13 million members. Jason DeRose, NPR News.
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