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July 24, 2017
Emily Atkin
The Troubling Return of Al Gore
"An Inconvenient Truth" turned the former vice president into a climate hero. Will he reclaim the mantle with "An Inconvenient Sequel"? Many activists in the environmental movement hope not.
May 24, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump didn’t let Sean Spicer meet the Pope out of sheer meanness.
May 24, 2017
Emily Atkin
Let’s all pray the Pope gave Trump a CliffsNotes version of his climate encyclical.
May 24, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Pope seems thrilled to meet the Trumps.
January 18, 2017
Sarah Jones
The Young Pope: An Authoritarian With an American Accent
HBO's new show is both of our time and not.
December 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
The report that the Pope condemned fake news as a sin is itself a kind of fake news.
April 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Bernie Sanders is going to hang out with the Pope.
February 25, 2016
Maggie Foucault
An archbishop hopes to undo all of Pope Francis’s work by hating on Girl Scouts.
February 19, 2016
Brian Beutler
Donald Trump forgives the Pope (after impulsively going nuclear on him).
February 18, 2016
Maggie Foucault
The other Pope Francis news of the day is far more important.
February 18, 2016
Adam Peck
Donald Trump is now in a holy war with the Pope.
February 1, 2016
Esther Breger
Pope Francis is making his feature film debut—but don’t call him an actor.
January 15, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
What Does Mercy Mean to Pope Francis?
In a new book, the Pope sits down with a Vatican reporter to discuss mercy, sin, and love in the twenty-first century.
January 13, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Obama invokes Pope Francis to shame anti-Muslim rhetoric.
December 29, 2015
Ryan Kearney
Next month, hundreds if not thousands of Cuban migrants will make their way to the United States.
December 28, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Donald Trump ties with Pope Francis for second-most admired man in the world; Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama take first in their categories.
December 22, 2015
Gabriel Snyder
New Republic: Best of 2015
December 18, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Pope Francis has paved the way for Mother Teresa to become a saint, despite Christopher Hitchens’s best efforts.
December 17, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Happy birthday, Pope Francis!
December 11, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Year We All Talked About the Catholic Church
In 2015, Pope Francis generated exactly the culture of dialogue he wanted: all-inclusive and yet notably Catholic.

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