Conrad Black: High Time for an American Pope

Conrad Black: High time for an American pope

Not since the 14th century have the Holy See and the world’s most powerful secular government been led simultaneously by fellow countrymen

A new Pontifical sovereign in the Vatican means a moment to remember under the sign of the plague for Pope Francis, of course, but also a reflection on the future and hope which presupposes the new Holy Fathers of the Catholic world in particular and in general.

The Pope is the spiritual guide of more than one thousand four hundred million Catholics in the world and head of the Vatican State. The death, on April 21st, of George Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, opens the possibility for us to approach these two aspects: the spiritual and the earthly. Francis incarnated, like few in the Church and in the world, the tension between prophecy and structure, between compassion and norm, between what we are and …