Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next pope.
In today’s episode from Rome, the team discusses:
- The security measures being taken at Casa Santa Marta, where the cardinal electors will stay during the conclave, including lock inspections and sealed windows
- The history and recent rise of betting on who will be the next pope, as well as Fantasy Football-style apps for building your conclave team
- The influence of the Synod on Synodality for the conclave—and what the result of the conclave might mean for the future of synodality
This episode features:
- Sebastian Gomes, America’s executive editor of audio and video
- Colleen Dulle, co-host of America’s “Inside the Vatican” podcast
- Ashley McKinless, executive editor and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast
- Anna Rolands, a professor of theology at Durham University
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Links from the show:
- The conclave is a referendum on synodality
- Over $10 million in bets placed on who will be the next pope
- Vatican guesthouse secured and sealed ahead of secret papal election
- Interview: Cardinal Müller on if Pope Francis was a heretic and what he wants in the next pope
- Hong Kong’s Jesuit Cardinal Chow on the conclave, the next pope and Francis’ legacy
- How will the next pope strengthen safeguards against sex abuse?
- Pope Francis and the future of Catholic moral theology
- Is it time for the second Latin American pope?
