This week’s guest is Gerard O’Connell, America’s Vatican correspondent. We discuss his new book, The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Account of the Conclave That Changed History, an excerpt of which America has published. 

We also discuss these stories: 

Pope Francis kisses the feet of South Sudan leaders

The wrong way to ask Catholics for money amid the sex abuse crisis

Grieving the fire of Notre Dame during Holy Week

Join us each week at 1pm Eastern on The Catholic Channel for "America This Week," our new weekly radio show on SiriusXM.