Jones is CEO and co-founder of the prayer app Hallow ... At this turning point for the Catholic Church, All Things Considered host Scott Detrow spoke to Jones about the new pope.

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“There’s just a lot of joy in the city right now,” says Ashley Lenz, a theologian in Chicago who works for the Catholic prayer app Hallow. “There’s a certain delight of seeing something ...

Thirteen previous leaders of the Catholic Church had gone by the name ... pontiff’s message of openness and unity, and she urged prayer for his success. “It is heartening that His Holiness ...

Prayer for the dead is almost a battle with the reality of death and destruction that weighs down upon the earthly existence of man. This is and remains a particular revelation of the Resurrection.

Prevost will be the first American Pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. The missionary spent much of his career ministering in Peru. Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV.