What happens inside a conclave? Everything you need to know.

Jesuitical

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Spirituality, Christianity, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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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: Final preparations for the conclave, including additional meetings for the cardinals President Trump’s A.I. pope image Covering the conclave for secular media, with NPR’s Scott Detrow The quirky procedures and protocols of the conclave, with Religion News Service’s Thomas Reese, S.J. This episode features: Ashley McKinless, executive editor and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast Zac Davis, director of digital strategy and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast Scott Detrow, weekend host of “All Things Considered,” and a co-host of the “Consider This” podcast. Thomas Reese, S.J., senior analyst at Religion News Service Sign up for America’s subscriber-exclusive “Conclave Diary” daily newsletter and get all of our extensive coverage at: ⁠AmericaMagazine.org/Subscribe⁠ Links from the show: ⁠Conclave: Everything you need to know about electing a new pope⁠ ⁠‘God is not mocked’: US Catholic leaders criticize Trump’s AI pope meme⁠ ⁠The conclave is a referendum on synodality⁠ ⁠Interview: Cardinal Müller on if Pope Francis was a heretic and what he wants in the next pope⁠ ⁠The pope is not the point⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to america magazine's Conclave Podcast.
0:39.5	Today is Monday, May 5th, and we are only two days away from the beginning of the
0:44.0	conclave.
0:44.7	The conclave is a centuries-old tradition, though it has gone through some changes over
0:48.6	the years.
0:49.3	And Father Tom Reese, the former editor-in-chief of America and now a senior analyst for
0:54.0	religion news service, has been explaining the inner-chief of America and now a senior analyst for religion news service,
0:55.2	has been explaining the inner workings of this procedure for over 20 years.
0:59.7	So naturally, we're bringing him on to talk us through what we can expect this week.
1:03.8	We're also talking to the weekend host of NPR's All Things Considered Scott Detrow,
1:08.3	who is in Rome this week covering the conclave about why the
1:11.5	secular press is so invested in the conclave and what Pope Francis meant to his own faith journey.
1:16.3	We'll talk through all that as well as the latest conclave news from today. My name is Zach Davis,
1:21.1	an associate editor at America Magazine and co-host of the Jesuitical podcast, and I am joined by my
1:26.0	co-host, Ashley McKinless.
1:28.1	Hello, Zach.
1:29.0	It's good to be with you.
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