Twelve years ago, I was nine years old, playing on the beach and savoring the final moments of spring break 2013. Unexpectedly, my mom shouted from her beach chair, “We have a new pope!”
“He’s a Jesuit, that’s weird,” she continued. I just nodded, not sure what those words meant, and I ran back to my sandcastle, more intrigued by my contraption than this ecclesial news.
Little did I know that moment would forever change and influence my view and relationship with the Catholic Church.
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For college students, including myself, Pope Francis was the first pope we have vivid, lived memories of. Seniors in college were in fourth grade during the last conclave. Catholic children and young adults, like me, grew up learning about and reading Pope
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