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Pius vs. Innocent

While waiting for news from the real-life conclave, the editors re-watch the 2024 feature film Conclave and the 2017 HBO series The Young Pope. Then they air their hopes and anxieties about the papal election. Dan Hitchens and special guest Matthew Schmitz join Julia Yost.

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  Recovering the University’s Soul | 2026 Neuhaus Lecture

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  Disney Adulting (ft. Veronica Clarke)

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  Why Portico? (ft. Micah Mattix)

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  Is Churchill America’s Hero? (ft. Sean McMeekin)

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  The Return of the Mainline? (ft. Brad East)

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  The Sexual Abuse Crisis Is a Law Crisis (ft. Michael Mazza)

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  Disclosure in Modern Poetry (ft. Glenn Arbery)

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  Our Crisis is Metaphysical | 2026 D.C. Lecture | 2026 D.C. Lecture (Presen…

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  The Countryman–Foreigner Distinction (ft. Matthew Crawford)

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  Admiration as Inspiration (ft. Elizabeth Corey)

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  What Virgil Teaches America (ft. Spencer Klavan)

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  The Promises of Gay Liberation (ft. Scott Yenor)

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  The Evangelical Elite Gap (ft. Aaron Renn)

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  Caravaggio the Destroyer (ft. Jaspreet Singh Boparai)

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  The Realities of Empire (ft. Nathan Pinkoski)

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  The Church of Sarah Mullally (ft. Damian Thompson)