This column by Peggy Noonan

tells me something I never knew about the Papacy.

In the Vatican after they have chosen a new pope, they lead him to a room off the Sistine Chapel where he is given the clothing of a pope. It is called the Crying Room. It is called that because it is there that the burdens and responsibilities of the papacy tend to come crashing down on the new pontiff. Many of them have wept. The best have wept.

What? Who?

On life and living in communion with the Catholic Church.

Richard Chonak

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