America: The National Catholic Review and Fr. Tom Reese answer
questions on the papal transition, conclave and the election of the next pope. Rev. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., is a senior fellow at the
Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and author of
Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church (Harvard University Press, 1996). He was editor in chief of
America from 1998-2005.
