What Pope Leo’s first days tell us about his priorities

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the first days of Leo XIV’s historic papacy. Today, Pope Leo met with members of the Vatican press corps and the thousands of other media in Rome covering his election, telling them to be peacemakers and calling for the release of all imprisoned journalists. On our final episode recorded in Rome, the team discusses: How Pope Leo related to the media, and the importance of his message of peace and truth in a world threatened by war and the rise of A.I. Pope Leo’s meeting with the College of Cardinals on Saturday, in which he signaled that he would continue the work started by Pope Francis Pope Leo’s “honeymoon” period—and the opposition he will inevitably face This episode features: Sebastian Gomes, America’s executive editor of audio and video Gerard O’Connell, America’s Vatican correspondent Ashley McKinless, executive editor and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast Links from the show: Pope Leo XIV calls for the release of imprisoned journalists, tells media to be peacemakers Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s address to the media Pope Leo XIV’s message to the cardinals: Vatican II and Pope Francis are here to stay Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s first formal address to the College of Cardinals Interview: Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich on why the cardinals chose Pope Leo XIV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	Welcome to America Magazine's Conclave Podcast. We are four days into the pontificate of Pope Leo the 14th, and it's needless to say,
0:48.3	been a busy four days.
0:49.3	We're recording this on May 12th.
0:52.3	It's Monday, and we're just back from a meeting that the new Pope had with members
0:57.1	of the media. This is a standard practice, I think, for when a new Pope is elected. It's one of the
1:02.0	first things that he does. We've learned that there are 6,000 journalists who are accredited to the
1:06.9	Holy See Press office during this interregnum and the conclave. So they had a chance to meet the Pope and he prepared an address for them.
1:14.1	So we're going to start there and we'll talk a little bit about that and then we'll look
1:17.2	back over the weekend because there were some really interesting and significant events
1:21.1	and addresses that he gave.
1:23.0	But let's start with the meeting with the media today.
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