Pope Francis: A Round-Up of Reactions

Man, Hugh Hewitt gets some good guests!

Father Robert Spitzer, SJ, author, former president of Gonzaga University, and founder of the Magis Institute (among a whole ton of others), reacts here.

Father Robert Barron, author, rector of Mundelein Seminary, and founder of the Word on Fire ministry, reacts here, including some interesting predictions on who will be replaced within the Vatican itself.

Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, founder of Ignatius Press, reacts here.

Rocco Palmo, blogger at Whispers in the Loggia, reacts here

Mark Steyn, author, columnist, and all-around rabble-rouser reacts here.  (Very interesting commentary on the western reaction to Blessed Pope John Paul II's death here.)

Dr. Albert Mohler, author, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and one of the country's leading Protestant theologians, reacts here.

Father C.J. McCloskey, author, a research fellow of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C, and a priest of Opus Dei, reacts here.

Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap., author and archbishop of Philadelphia, reacts here and here.

And George Weigel, author, papal biographer, and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, talks evangelical Catholicism here.