Special Edition: New Pope, New Direction? What This Choice Means for the World
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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History has been made at the Vatican – a closed-door conclave of cardinals chose the first American pope. Today, we’re taking you inside the secretive process of choosing the Catholic Church’s leader with insights from a theology expert. Plus, we’re discussing the meaning behind this moment and what to expect as Pope Leo XIV takes on one of the most powerful roles in religion and world affairs.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, May 10th. History has been made at the Vatican and around the world. |
| 0:05.0 | A closed-door conclave of Cardinals chose the first American Pope. So who is he? And how does he |
| 0:10.6 | compare to Pope Francis? Today, we're taking you inside the secretive process of choosing the |
| 0:14.9 | Catholic Church's leader and the meaning behind this moment. My guest is Candida Moss, a papal news |
| 0:20.2 | contributor for CBS News, and the Edward |
| 0:22.4 | Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. She explains what distinguishes |
| 0:26.8 | this new leader, what signals he's already sending about a variety of issues, and what to expect |
| 0:31.5 | as he takes on one of the most powerful and pressured roles in religion and world affairs. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different |
| 0:42.5 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:45.8 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide |
| 0:49.9 | all the day's news in 10 minutes. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:52.6 | It's now time for today's special edition |
| 0:54.6 | Saturday. Canada Moss, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. Thanks for |
| 1:02.1 | having me. So before we talk specifically about this newly selected Pope, I'd love to go over why the |
| 1:07.6 | pope matters in the first place, you know, both to Catholics, but also |
| 1:11.5 | what significance does the Pope have, even people who aren't Catholic or people who aren't even |
| 1:16.2 | religious. He is the spiritual leader of the 1.4 billion Catholics around the world. But the |
| 1:22.7 | stunning thing about the Pope is that he means so much to non-Catholics and even to non-Christians. |
| 1:29.4 | And we've seen that recently. |
| 1:31.4 | There were many people who went to Catholic churches after Pope Francis's death who were not |
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