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I have not read my husband's dissertation but I read the pope's. With Elizabeth Dias and Jason Horowitz: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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me when I got called on in intro to philosophy

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"The church property, he said, presents 'a great opportunity for parking, for recreation.'" In New Jersey, a Republican mayor wants to use eminent domain to seize and raze an actively functioning Episcopal church, one of the largest in its diocese. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/n...

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Got to play National Geographic reporter in my own backyard for this one. Coyotes are unique among apex predators for thriving in cities, but my favorite fact is how they got here. Hint: 🌁 Huge kudos to photographer Loren Elliott for his stunning work. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

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To understand Leo, understand CTU. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

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New from me & Nick Bogel-Burroughs: When Robert Prevost was in divinity school, his classmates staged a startling protest in favor of women's ordination at an ordination ceremony in 1981. The men being ordained as deacons showed their support, infuriating the bishop. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...

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“He is one of our own!” I went to Mass at the pope's home parish yesterday, where the pride was palpable. With reporting from a crack team in New Orleans, Miami and beyond: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

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My "Lucy with the football" is cheerfully informing Panera cashiers that I used to work there and waiting for them to care. (They are correct not to. Why do I do this.)

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Pope Leo grew up in a Catholic enclave on the South Side of Chicago that essentially disappeared, part of a larger pattern that one historian calls "one of the great dramas of 20th century U.S. history." With Julie Bosman and the rest of the incredible Chicago bureau: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...

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Dig the nod to Saul Bellow by @ruthgraham.bsky.social👍 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

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The conclave has begun! Live updates from reporters on the scene here: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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I went (back) to Detroit, where supporters of the Traditional Latin Mass wonder if a change in Rome will mean a reprieve from restrictions set for this summer. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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RIP to one of my favorite novelists. Every sentence of hers felt totally new, and every character, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...

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Tens of thousands of people are gathering to give Pope Francis a final farewell at his funeral in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican. Watch our livestream and follow updates.

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This photo makes me so nostalgic for living in rural New England, where literally every man and building looks like this

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boy with candles in church in Italy © 1973 William Koechling

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It would get tiresome to post every time this stupid feature made a factual error, but literally the first "Catholic" parish listed here is a nondenominational Presbyterian-ish church

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"We must now say, ‘I am Pope Francis.'" New from me and Elizabeth Dias: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Streaming for the Oscar-winning film “Conclave,” which explores the process of selecting a new pope, jumped this week after the news of Pope Francis’s passing. Experts said that the 2024 film accurately portrayed the papal selection process.

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my only contribution to pope discourse: when he came to the city in 2015, the Post assigned me to ask a bunch of pizza places what kind of pies they would make for the pope, and Bleecker Street Pizza came up with this one nypost.com/2015/09/23/t...

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New from me and Elizabeth Dias: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

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Chatted on a plane this week with a friendly 30-something woman who works in HR. She asked what I do and then said, "Oh, so are you using AI a lot to write?" She was surprised by the answer and and seemingly a bit sorry for me 🙂

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A cappella hymns in the Roosevelt Room, the laying on of hands in the Oval: Elizabeth Dias and I reported from the White House this week on how the Trump administration is welcoming a very specific style of prayer, worship and power through his new faith office. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

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solving the problem of male loneliness with quicksand

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Somehow I know three people locally who are starting to read the Kristin Lavransdatter series, and there are 18 (!) holds on it at the Dallas Public Library ... something is happening ...

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Sometimes you gotta let the lede breathe a little, set the scene

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“People need to understand that Muslims here in Plano, we’re just like everyone else." @jdavidgoodman.bsky.social on a proposed housing development in North Texas that has drawn the attention of the governor and local activists: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

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Veering into philosophical territory with the customer service chatbot

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Breaking News: The former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, has died. He was the highest American prelate of the Catholic Church to be accused of sexual abuse. nyti.ms/4jghunJ

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Disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died. I knocked on his door in rural Kansas and spoke with him in 2019: slate.com/human-intere...

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"The movement’s principal authors and workshop leaders claimed that modern men had become 'feminized' by demands that they get in touch with their feelings, seek consensus rather than lead, and become domesticated rather than follow their warrior spirit." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/b...

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