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By Antonino Cambria, LifeSiteNews - “There’s a Vatican official who … when he was asked, ‘How does he feel now that the pope’s died? He said, ‘Oh, now I feel free,'” Pentin said. “I know another one saying it feels like it’s [a] new springtime. I think there’s a sense of a lifting of a bit of an oppression. There was very much a climate of fear and [there] was low morale in the Vatican, and that seems to have lifted.”

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Among the thousands of articles that have been written in the past few weeks, analyzing whom the College of Cardinals will consider in the papal conclave, perhaps the most enlightening is this New York Times report by Jason Horowitz, who discovers that the call for Church unity has become controversial... ”It is hard to imagine a less offensive rallying cry” than the call for unity, Horowitz remarks at the start of his report; “but in the ears of Francis’ most committed supporters, it rings as a code word for rolling back Francis’ more inclusive vision of the Roman Catholic Church.”

By Anne Hendershott, the American Spectator - The newly appointed Catholic Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Robert McElroy, has been one of President Trump’s harshest critics. On Feb. 9, 2025, during a prayer service for immigrants at San Diego’s St. Joseph’s Cathedral, the Cardinal described the Trump administration’s attempts to deport criminal immigrants as waging a “war of fear and terror.”... Delivering his angry remarks the week before he was to begin his papal assignment in Washington, D.C., Cardinal McElroy has taken every opportunity to condemn the Trump administration for what he called the “massive and indiscriminate deportation” of immigrants.