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Song for the New Pope

Song for the New Pope

A respectfully irreverent riff, among other timely recs

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Nate Chinen
May 09, 2025
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The news caught many by surprise, and the takes are starting to flow.

But by now you’ve surely heard that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected head of the Roman Catholic Church today. Pope Leo XIV, as he will be known, is the 267th pope, and the first to come from the United States of America. As word got out this afternoon, I exchanged texts wit…

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