Will the next pope embrace synodality–or reject it?

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🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 61 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: The security measures being taken at Casa Santa Marta, where the cardinal electors will stay during the conclave, including lock inspections and sealed windows The history and recent rise of betting on who will be the next pope, as well as Fantasy Football-style apps for building your conclave team The influence of the Synod on Synodality for the conclave—and what the result of the conclave might mean for the future of synodality This episode features: Sebastian Gomes, America’s executive editor of audio and video Colleen Dulle, co-host of America’s “Inside the Vatican” podcast Ashley McKinless, executive editor and co-host of America’s “Jesuitical” podcast Anna Rolands, a professor of theology at Durham University 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: The conclave is a referendum on synodality Over $10 million in bets placed on who will be the next pope Vatican guesthouse secured and sealed ahead of secret papal election Interview: Cardinal Müller on if Pope Francis was a heretic and what he wants in the next pope Hong Kong’s Jesuit Cardinal Chow on the conclave, the next pope and Francis’ legacy How will the next pope strengthen safeguards against sex abuse? Pope Francis and the future of Catholic moral theology Is it time for the second Latin American pope? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Welcome to America Magazine's Conclave Podcast. I'm Sebastian Goem's an executive editor at America.
0:42.0	And a big question around this conclave is the one of continuity with Pope Francis.
0:47.0	To what degree are the Cardinals discussing amongst themselves carrying on so many of the initiatives that were launched by Pope Francis?
0:54.1	And when we talk about Pope Francis, one of the big initiatives that he started was, of course,
0:58.8	synodality.
0:59.6	That was this three-year global consultation process where Catholics around the world were
1:04.5	invited to give their take, basically, on the life and the mission of the Catholic Church
1:08.8	today.
1:09.9	And it was just in the last couple of months
1:11.8	that we heard that the whole process is going to be extended to 2028 when there will be another
1:16.0	global gathering to evaluate the development of synodality around the globe. So this is certainly
1:22.5	a process more than an event. So our main conversation today is going to be about that question of
1:27.8	synodality and how it's being discussed in the conclave today. And joining me to talk about that
1:32.7	is Colleen Dully. She's the host of our Inside the Vatican podcast. And you're also writing about
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