One year of Pope Leo – a promising start?
5/12/202638 min
One year on from when Pope Leo became head of the Catholic church and he remains a bit of an enigma. Is he a Conservative or Liberal? What did we learn from his clash with Donald Trump? Damian Thompson is joined by editor of The Pillar Ed Condon and two Spectator favourites – Freddy Gray and Mary Wakefield.
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[gentle music] Welcome to Holy Smoke, The Spectator's religion podcast. I'm Damian Thompson. It's a year since, to general astonishment, the crowds in St. Peter's Square heard the words Habemus Papam, followed by the name of an American cardinal, Robert Francis Prevost, who'd been a relatively obscure