How nice, this side of the Atlantic, to awake to Fr Jim on the BBC, speaking of the appointments / nominations of Sotomayor and Diaz. Catch it here, sliding almost to the end of the program at 22.55.

Austen Ivereigh is a fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, at the University of Oxford, and a biographer of Pope Francis. In 2020 he collaborated with Pope Francis on Let Us Dream: the Path to a Better Future, published by Simon & Schuster. His most recent book is First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis, published by Loyola Press.