As most writers do, I keep a little notebook, albeit digital, of ideas that I want to write about. A recent episode of “What Catholics Believe” prompted me to jot down just such an “aha” moment, which also became the seed for this essay.I have been mulling it over for almost two weeks, making notes and trying to decide when to write and publish it, when a headline earlier this week forced me into action. The headline in question, on the LifeSiteNews website, read: “Pray for Pope Leo XIV’s conversion and recovery after cancer diagnosis”.