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A group of journalists and Vatican experts, who were in Rome for the election of Pope Leo XIV, offer analysis and insight about the first weeks of Pope Leo XIV's papacy. Panelists included: Kim Daniels, director, Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University James Longman, ABC News foreign correspondent James Martin, S.J., Outreach founder Michael J. O'Loughlin, executive director, Outreach Anna Rowlands, chair, Centre for Catholic Social Thought and Practice Highlights include: Describing interactions with Cardinal Robert Prevost before his election as pope (18:00) Kim Daniels on the narrative of Pope Leo is taking shape in the media (23:45) James Longman on the papacy as a global news story (27:26) James Martin, S.J., on Pope Leo and LGBTQ issues (35:13) Anna Rowlands on synodality (38:57) What Pope Leo's choice of traditional garb might signal (53:54) Relationship between Pope Leo and the U.S. hierarchy (56:45) (Cover image: OSV News/Reuters/Claudia Greco)