The challenges facing the first-ever American pope
On Point | Podcast
WBUR
4.2 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The world's 1.4 billion Catholics have a new pope, Leo XIV. But the church he now leads is far from unified. What does the global Catholic Church want from a new pope -- and can he deliver it?
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| 0:31.1 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:39.6 | This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:46.0 | Sister Roslyn Sophie Wafula has been a Catholic nun with the daughters of St. Paul in Nairobi, Kenya, for 25 years. |
| 0:59.0 | Right now, she's living in Rome, preparing to celebrate what's called her silver Jubilee, a recognition of her quarter century of religious service. |
| 1:03.0 | That's why she was at the Vatican, crowded into St. Peter's Square with thousands of others from all over the world on May 8th |
| 1:12.2 | when a cardinal announced a new pope had been elected, a new leader for the world's 1.4 billion |
| 1:19.4 | Catholics. |
| 1:20.7 | Somebody was like, no, it can't be the second day, no, for sure it will be the next day. |
| 1:25.7 | And I was like, oh, I feel like it's today. |
| 1:27.8 | Something tells me it will be today. |
| 1:30.6 | Sure enough, it came to be. |
| 1:34.4 | Anuncio Vobis, |
| 1:36.7 | Gaudium manium. |
| 1:43.3 | Abemus Papam. Ahemus papam. |
| 1:47.0 | When there was that, abemus papam, I just, I was filled with joy. |
| 1:59.0 | And in my culture, when you're full of joy, there is this thing we do like this. |
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