Jane Clifton: Call me Leo
Pope Leo XIV: Marketable everyman. Photo / Getty Images
Anyone who says the Catholic Church is not modernising is simply not paying attention.
First inkling for this writer (a cultural though not necessarily observant Catholic) was the incidence of senior Irish priests – most aged 80 if they were a day – live-streaming the Irish remembrance ceremony for the
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