“He had a great way of just kind of getting in the middle,” one sister recalled of the future pope, “and making both sides come together and build bridges.”
Scott Detrow
Scott Detrow is a journalists at NPR, where he co-hosts "All Things Considered." He covered the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV from Rome and is the co-author with Daniel Burke of American Pope: Leo XIV's Road from the South Side of Chicago to Vatican City.
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There just don’t seem to be many who seem willing to engage with members of both parties from a position of respect and empathy.