Why Pope Leo XIV shouldn’t be a media star like Pope Francis
If he must speak out – after all, it’s in his job description – I’d also like him to speak out about the things on which late pontiff was largely silent.
For the last couple of weeks, it’s felt like everyone in the Catholic Church online had an opinion on whom the new Pope should be. There’s been a long process of bet-hedging, horse-trading, tyre-kicking, and all-round snooping into the backgrounds of the cardinal electors.
Philippa Martyr is an adjunct research fellow at the school of philosophy and theology in University of Notre Dame Australia, and an external affiliate at Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society, UNDA/St Mary’s University Twickenham, UK.
