Reactions From Outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral as First American Pope is Announced

| 05/8/2025

By: Patrick Grady

Crowds gathered quickly outside America’s Parish Church, and The Good Newsroom was able to get reactions from Catholics and Non-Catholics alike on this momentous day.

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Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Reverend A.R. Bernard, and Imam Mehmet Ozalp took time to speak with The Good Newsroom about the importance of holding interfaith dialogues, as the topic of religious freedom can only be upheld if all religions can be free.

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Patrick Grady

| 01/16/2026

Pope Leo XIV recalled La Repubblica's 50 years of recounting the history of Italy, the world, and the Church, a constant relationship with readers, freedom of inquiry, and dialogue as the privileged path for peace-building.

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Vatican News

| 01/16/2026

His eventual martyrdom in the face of his opposition’s bigoted fear of positive change is what we observe on Monday.

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Monsignor Joseph P. LaMorte

| 01/16/2026