One thing keeps rattling around in my head as I travel around Rome and chat with various folks: the sense that there is a “business as usual” air about the election of the next pope. There is, of course, an air of excitement and expectation, as is always the case when the drama of a papal election looms on the horizon. But, overall, the mood is calm, with little in the way of alarmist histrionics…
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One thing keeps rattling around in my head as I travel around Rome and chat with various folks: the sense that there is a “business as usual” air about the election of the next pope. There is, of course, an air of excitement and expectation, as is always the case when the drama of a papal election looms on the horizon. But, overall, the mood is calm, with little in the way of alarmist histrionics…
