NPR News: 05-08-2025 7PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Am I a propagandist? |
| 0:01.7 | A truth teller. |
| 0:02.9 | An influencer? |
| 0:04.2 | There's probably no more contested profession in the world today than mine, journalism. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Brian Reed, and on my show, Question Everything, |
| 0:12.1 | we dive head first into the conflicts we're all facing over truth and who gets to tell it. |
| 0:17.4 | Listen now to Question Everything, part of the NPR podcast network. |
| 0:22.4 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. It's been more than a hundred years since the last |
| 0:30.0 | pope named Leo. And today, the Vatican announced a Chicago-born missionary picked to be the |
| 0:35.4 | next pontiff. We'll be taking the name Leo the 14th. |
| 0:38.9 | Sylvia Pajolese in Rome, and there's more on the history of the name chosen by the man |
| 0:42.1 | will succeed Pope Francis. |
| 0:43.3 | The last Leo was Leo the 13th, and he was known for his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum of New |
| 0:50.8 | Things. |
| 0:51.7 | In it, he outlined the rights of workers to fair wages, safe working conditions, |
| 0:57.0 | and the creation of trade unions. The document also affirmed the right to own property, free enterprise, |
| 1:03.2 | and it was opposed to both socialism and less-a-fair capitalism. Leo XIII was called the Social Pope |
| 1:10.4 | or the Workers' Pope, and he is really seen |
| 1:13.1 | as the founder of the Catholic Church's social doctrine. Leo, the 14th is the first American pope. |
| 1:19.4 | In public remarks day, he emphasized peace, dialogue, and missionary work. Some immigration experts are |
| 1:24.7 | raising red flags over the Trump administration's latest deportation push. |
| 1:29.2 | NPR's Windsor Johnston reports the president's plan to deport migrants to Libya could face a number of hurdles. |
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