James V. Grimaldi

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With a new Vatican correspondent and a huge stack of awards to propel us forward, you can expect NCR will continue to change, grow and improve, says executive editor James V. Grimaldi. 

In 2003, one of the 20th century's most famous Catholic writers reviewed a blockbuster novel that later became a blockbuster movie, The Da Vinci Code. The writer of that book review for NCR was Fr. Andrew Greeley.

"Francis was my pope for less than two days," said a new Catholic visiting from the U.S. "I wish he'd stayed longer, because I kind of liked Pope Francis." But he was eager to see the new pope introduced to the world.

The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems facing the worldwide Catholic Church that the new Pope Leo XIV must address.

Late pontiff's legacy is a conclave flashpoint. Will the cardinal electors continue down a path blazed by the first Latin American pope? Or will they pull back from Pope Francis' initiative known as synodality?

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The Independent News Source

Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned out to mourn the charismatic leader of the Catholic Church.

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy briefly just prior to the funeral of Pope Francis, who spent a lifetime as a cleric working to build bridges.