The Death of Pope John Paul II; Listener Calls on the Death of Pope John Paul II; Andrea Rich Resigns From LACMA; A Modern-Day de Tocqueville
The Death of Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II died at 11:37 a.m., California time, on Saturday morning after a long and very public illness. Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, is at the Vatican. Following the Pope’s funeral and the requisite period of mourning, Mahoney and over a hundred other cardinals will vote for the next Pope. Tod Tamberg, media relations director for the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, joins Larry from Rome. Also joining the conversation is Rev. James T. Bretzke, S.J., S.T.D. is Associate Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco; Jack Miles, Pulitzer prize-winning author of God: A Biography, Senior Advisor to the President of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and MacArthur Fellow; Father Sean Carroll, Associate Pastor at Dolores Mission, and Sister Barbara Quinn, Director of the Center for Christian Spirituality at the University of San Diego.
Listener Calls on the Death of Pope John Paul II
The Pope died after a long and very public illness. How has the Pope’s death affected you? What does it mean to you? What qualities would you like to see in the next Pope? Call us and share your thoughts on the meaning of the Pope’s death. Abbot Francis Benedict, Abbot at St. Andrews Abbey, a Benedictine monastery of the congregation of the enunciation in Valyermo, California, joins Larry.
Andrea Rich Resigns From LACMA
Andrea Rich, the head of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will resign her post, effective November. Head of LACMA for a decade, Rich is credited with taking the museum to a new level of success. Eli Broad, a LACMA trustee and founder of the Broad Foundation, joins Larry to talk about his reaction to Rich’s departure and her contributions to LACMA.
A Modern-Day de Tocqueville
Writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy traveled 15,000 miles across America, looking at the nation through a foreigner’s eyes, just like famed Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville who wrote the two-volume classic, Democracy in America, (published in 1835 and 1840, respectively). Mr. Levy’s observations will be published in a five-part series in the Atlantic Monthly, starting with the May issue. Mr. Levy joins Larry Mantle to share his modern-day Tocquevillian odyssey, titled, “In the Footsteps of Tocqueville.”