The Friday Pillar Post - May 2, 2025

Written by Ed Condon and published May 2, 2025.

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Show notes:

‘The Church is not a substitute of the UN’: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis

‘Have confidence the Lord does not abandon His Church’: Cardinal Rouco on the conclave

Cardinal Napier: ‘We need someone to build on the Francis foundation’

Meet the conclave: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost

Meet the conclave: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle

Meet the conclave: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Meet the conclave: Cardinal Pietro Parolin

Meet the conclave: Cardinal Matteo Zuppi

Parolin may not be China’s preferred conclave candidate

The short and the long of conclave timing

Papal gelatos, press office chaos, and a Sistine shock

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