- What Historians Are Saying About the Pope: Excerpts by Bonnie Goodman
- High and Low Points in the History of the Papacy by AP
- Papal Succession Stirs Hope for Real Change by Bill Broadway
- The Pope and the Presidents by Marc Nadeau
- Sinners Among the Popes by Khaleej Times of Dubai
- Why the Press Keeps Missing the Papal Succession Story by Kenneth Woodward
- How Do the Popes Get Their Names? by Thomas Vinciguerra
- Is Dealing with Islam the Next Pope's Great Challenge? by Timothy R. Furnish
- The Conclave: What the Media and the Rest of Us Need to Know About Its History by Frederic J. Baumgartner
- Did the Pope Win the Cold War? The Answer Is YES in Poland by NYT
- The Paradoxical Pope by Jason Berry
- The Pope Who Had to Deal with a Less Deferntial Flock by Tony Barber
- Pope John Paul the Great? by Newsday
- Did the Pope Win the Cold War? The Answer Is YES in Poland by Richard Bernstein
- What the Obits Are Neglecting ... John Paul II's Economic Ethics by Mark Engler
- How the White House Is Exploiting the Pope by Sidney Blumenthal
- How the Pope Helped Defeat Comunism by Anne Applebaum
- What the Pope Did for Jews by Gerald L. Zelizer
- The Pope's Biographer Assesses His Legacy by George Weigel
- The Slavic Pope Who Tried to Unify the Church by Jaroslav Pelikan
- A Former Priest Turned Writer Who Says the Pope Was Suspicious of Modernity (Including Democracy) by Virginia Heffernan
- How the Pope Weakened the Appeal of the Catholic Church by Thomas Cahill
- The Pope Was the Greatest Actor of the Age by Timothy Garton Ash
- The First Pope in 500 Years to Change World History by Economist Editorial
- The Pope's Legacy by Michael Radu