Expert Comment: The point of the pope. Why His Holiness matters (even if you’re not a Catholic)

Published on April 25, 2025

Dr Miles Pattenden, Programme Director of the Europaeum at Oxford and lecturer in the Faculty of History, is an expert on the papacy and the Catholic Church. In this Expert Comment he reflects on the role of the pope in a world now defined by immediacy and contrast.
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