Frank Berry: To save Catholicism, let’s talk nuns, not popes

Frank Berry: To save Catholicism, let’s talk nuns, not popes

The election of an American pope, Leo XIV, is a fitting culmination of a conclave that had the feel of an American presidential election, except shrouded in secrecy and mercifully brief. Conservatives and liberals rallied around their favorite candidates, dished dirt on the opposition and adopted slogans (“unity” and “diversity”) aimed at swing voters. And like a presidential contest, it fixated public attention — and people’s hope for the futur…