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Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh for Newsweek on Financial Headwinds Facing New Pope
May 9, 2025
Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd at St. Peter's Basilica for the first time on May 8, 2025. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images
Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, was cited in a Newsweek story about the financial headwinds facing the new Pope entitled "Pope Leo XIV Faces Financial Headache as New Catholic Church Leader."
"The church is facing financial concerns on multiple fronts, Erin Walsh, a professor focusing on Christianity at the University of Chicago, told Newsweek. These include declining tourism after the COVID-19 pandemic, litigation surrounding the sexual abuse scandal that has hit the church in recent decades and the rising cost of supporting aging clerics, she said."
Read the full story here: https://www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-xiv-financial-vatican-headache-2069912