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Today, I am joined by Sebastian Gomes and Colleen Dully.

Welcome back to the show.

Hey, Zach.

Is that good to be with you?

And as you both alluded to, I am Zach Davis.

I'm co-host of the show reading the intro for my colleague, Ashlyn McInlis, who has done a lot of work in the past nine months since I've been parenting a child.

So we've given her this episode off, and I am very grateful to her for all the work she's put in.

Well, I've been hanging out with my daughter, Madeline.

So it's just me you got today, guys.

Cool. But also, we're you got today, guys. Cool.

But also, we're reassembling the Conclave podcast crew. Yeah, let's go. That's correct. So it doesn't look like any of us are in Rome currently based on our backgrounds, but soon to be. That's true. Colleen,

you are packing up and moving there shortly. But we're

releasing this around the anniversary of the election of Pope Leo the 14th. It's been a year. We were

there in the lead up to the conclave and in the immediate aftermath of the conclave. And we had a lot

of questions about what the new Pope would do with a lot of

reforms that had been put in by Pope Francis, the different challenges facing the church,

the Roman Curia, the trends of the modern world, the secular world. And right after

Pope Leo was elected, we basically all said, wait and see. It's too early to tell.

We should wait a year. Well, it's been a year, and we're going to try to say something about some of those questions that we had. So we're going to introduce this. We've got a couple big topic questions, but I'm sure we're going to go a million different places. I'll go ahead and start, though. as soon as Pope Leo came out on the balcony,

people were looking at what would he be wearing, right? Would he different places. I'll go ahead and start, though. As soon as Pope Leo came out on the balcony,

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