On the night of the election of Pope Leo XIV, Amy Welborn recorded a podcast from Rome on the events of the day as part of the FYI Podcast series with Chris Barnett.
You can listen to it on Spotify here
Amy Welborn wrote about the experiences of the day in Catholic World Report.
The bells rang, the bands played, the women, the men, the children streamed out of the square, back out into Rome, back into the world, grateful and hopeful, not because of an individual, his quirks and views, because they did not know a bit about any of that, but just because of some white smoke and two words and all they mean, all they have meant through the centuries, all they have meant as they have bridged the time and space between our hard present and the promise of Jesus, handed over to Peter to share with this hurting world:
Habemus Papam.
