Pope Leo's Church, Risk on the Road, What Happened to the Great White Sharks?
About this episode
The episode covers Pope Leo XIV's influence on the Catholic Church, the dangers of chameleon carriers in trucking, and the decline of great white sharks in Cape Town.
Nearly one year after the election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, Norah O’Donnell speaks with three of the most influential American cardinals in their first joint interview about how Pope Leo’s church has emerged as a voice of moral opposition to the war with Iran and against the crackdown on immigration in the U.S. O’Donnell interviews Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago; Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, D.C.; and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, NJ, about the effect Pope Leo is having on the Catholic Church. She also travels to Italy to visit Castel Gandolfo, the 400-year-old papal summer retreat. Continuing the work of his predecessor, Pope Francis, Pope Leo is opening the property up to the world to create opportunities for migrants and the less fortunate. 60 MINUTES investigates a scheme putting us at risk on our roadways - the rise of dangerous commercial trucking fleets called chameleon carriers. Known for flouting federal regulations and racking up safety violations, these often foreign owned and operated networks are four times more likely to be involved in severe crashes. Bill Whitaker reports on one such scheme - Super Ego - a…
Topics covered
- Pope Leo XIV
- Catholic Church
- moral opposition
- war with Iran
- immigration
- commercial trucking
- chameleon carriers
- great white sharks
Keywords
- safety violations
- Super Ego
- federal investigation
- class action lawsuit
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