UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Several important new perspectives on Pope Francis were reported recently, including “From Benedict to Francis”, an extremely informed, insightful and frank interview with the UK Tablet’s Robert Mickens, accessible at:
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Selections from this full interview were shown recently in a significant USA/TV documentary, “Secrets of the Vatican”. The full documentary is on the PBS Frontine website and accessible here:
Also, the Irish Times’ reported on the recent Cambridge University lecture on “Governing the Church” by former Irish President, Mary McAleese, accessible at:
These reports arrived against the backdrop of Pope Francis’ pulling Cardinal Pell from Australia and the much anticipated upcoming meeting of President Obama and Pope Francis, discussed at:
Robert Mickens studied in Rome in the 1980′s as a seminarian at the top Catholic Gregorian University. He has been The Tablet’s Rome correspondent from 2001 to 2003 and from 2005 to the present. His decade plus of honest and direct reporting from Rome has enabled him to develop a deep team of sources in the Vatican Curia. He also writes the paper’s popular weekly column, ‘Letter from Rome’. Mickens is regularly featured as a Vatican-affairs analyst for the BBC in Great Britain, ABC in Australia and National Public radio in the United States.
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