May 9, 2025
When Cardinal Robert Prevost faced the world from Vatican City following his election as the first-ever American Pope, conservative and traditionalist Catholics clung to one thing they knew that gave them hope he might be different from his late predecessor Pope Francis.
May 7, 2025
One of the most distinct memories any reporter will take away from covering the election of the new Pope is that no sooner was there speculation in print about a "frontrunner" to become the 266th successor to St. Peter then...
May 5, 2025
It was inevitable much of the media would immediately conclude Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp opting out of challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., all but doomed the GOP's chances of picking up a Senate seat in 2026.
May 5, 2025
Amid reports that Cardinal Vinko Puljic would vote for Pope from a Vatican guesthouse rather than in the conclave that begins Tuesday, the retired archbishop of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, announced he would participate in the Sistine Chapel proceedings after all.
Apr 29, 2025
With the latest conclave of the Roman Catholic Church poised to begin meeting May 7, it seems quite likely we will know who the 267th Pope is by the following weekend.
Apr 28, 2025
The news that Diana Denman died April 17 at a meeting of the Philadelphia Society was not only sad, but also somewhat unbelievable for her legion of friends. Although she was 91, those who knew the lady from San Antonio just could not believe that she was gone.
Apr 21, 2025
As the world mourned Pope Francis following the announcement of his death Monday morning, reporters who had covered Roman Catholicism's first-ever pope from the Western Hemisphere shared their reminiscences.
Apr 19, 2025
"You're not going to believe this," Mario Vargas Llosa told me in October 2002, "but until three weeks before the voting [in the 1990 race for president of Peru], I had no idea who [Alberto] Fujimori was.