In one clip from the tear-filled interview, Watters asked about her request to see her husband’s body after his death. “We walked into that room. He had this smirk on his face,” Erika Kirk recalled.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On Sunday (Sept. 14), the Catholic news website Crux published excerpts of Pope Leo XIV’s first extended interview with any media outlet, giving the first look at his perspective ...