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Francis Cardinal Arinze

February 17, 2025

“The Ahistorical Racial Polemic of Conclave”

Politicking and ideological clashes take centre stage in Edward Berger’s papal succession drama Conclave, a frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. But it is in the arc of its African cardinal that the film sets a damaging narrative.
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Lucian Msamati in Conclave. Courtesy of Focus Features.

August 21, 2024

The Creed of Cardinal Arinze

How a young priest from Onitsha, Nigeria, became the highest-ranking African and Black official of the Roman Catholic Church, and a storied icon of modern apostolicism.
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Cardinal Arinze prepares for Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

February 17, 2025

Lucian Msamati in Conclave. Courtesy of Focus Features.

“The Ahistorical Racial Polemic of Conclave”

Politicking and ideological clashes take centre stage in Edward Berger’s papal succession drama Conclave, a frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. But it is in the arc of its African cardinal that the film sets a damaging narrative.
Otosirieze

August 21, 2024

Cardinal Arinze prepares for Pontifical High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the Feast of Corpus Christi in London on June 20, 2019. Photo credit: Mazur/cbcew.org.uk.

The Creed of Cardinal Arinze

How a young priest from Onitsha, Nigeria, became the highest-ranking African and Black official of the Roman Catholic Church, and a storied icon of modern apostolicism.
Otosirieze

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