One year on, Pope Leo XIV has thus cultivated a reputation as the “quiet American pope,” methodically restoring decorum, legality, and serenity to the papal office while at the same time, in some areas, pursuing the general line of Pope Francis.…
A diplomatic visit to the Vatican quickly turned into a high-profile test of the growing divide between President Donald Trump and the first American-born pope. Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off a two-day visit to Vatican City and Italy…
As U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares for a high-profile meeting with Pope Leo XIV this week, President Donald Trump has intensified his attacks on the American-born pontiff, accusing him of being soft on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and…
A book creating a buzz in Rome these days dives into the intriguing thesis that Pope Leo was elected, in part, to help bring American donors and dollars back to the Vatican. Popes, Dollars and War (Papi, Dollari e Guerre – not yet in English) is…
The timing of the new recognitions suggests Leo is paying attention to what is happening in Spain—and signaling that neither the anti-Catholic abuses of the past nor those of the present will be ignored. The post Leo XIV Recognises…
The Vatican Observatory announced that an asteroid has been named in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who formally reestablished the observatory in 1891. The remaining three asteroids have been named for other key figures in the history of the Vatican…
Concluding his first papal visit to the Global South, Pope Leo said some good things and some very bad things last week during an in-flight press conference. Robert Royal of The Catholic Thing observed, “Unfortunately, on the way back to Rome on…
Pope Leo XIV ordained 10 new priests in St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, urging them to keep the doors of the Church open and to remember that their mission is to welcome, not to exclude. The post Pope Leo XIV tells new priests:…
Pope Leo XIV arrived April 21 in Equatorial Guinea, the fourth and final country of his 11-day apostolic journey in Africa, where the pope met the country’s longtime ruler and urged the country’s civil authorities to choose justice over power,…
There is a Yiddish witticism, Der Mensch tracht, un Gott lacht (“Man plans, and God laughs”), and recent events suggest the divine has a particularly puckish sense of humor. No sooner had his political lobbyists begun to gain traction with their…
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