How 9/11 Got Francis Elected Pope

Cardinal Egan left the 2001 Synod of Bishops to bury New York’s dead, and John Paul II gave his chair to Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the feast of St. Francis. Pope Leo XIV still walks that path.

Pope Francis watches Imam Khalid Latif, right, and Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove, left, shake hands as he arrives for an interfaith service at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York on Sept. 25, 2015. Cardinal Edward Egan, who had hoped to host him in the city, had died six months earlier. (AP)

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