When a Pope is elected, everyone awaits the first governing decisions. It is generally said that the first hundred days are those that will define the entire pontificate, as is usually said of elected leaders. Leo XIV’s first hundred days, however, did not bring major governing decisions. Calm pervaded and characterized Leo’s first 100 [...]

As Pope Leo XIV passed the 100-day mark in his pontificate, reports and analysis pieces noted how quietly he has gone about things in the main, even how little governing Leo has appeared to do as yet, how he has appeared reluctant to let himself be the story, at all.

On August 13, however, [...]

In just a little over one hundred days since taking office, Pope Leo XIV has met several times with all the heads of dicasteries. He has approved appointments already in place, messages already in progress, and initiatives now in the final stages. For now, however, there have been no key decisions regarding the heads [...]

More than a million people attended the Jubilee of Youth at Tor Vergata in Rome, the first such large gathering since Leo XIV’s election. Leo XIV did not miss his appointment with young people: he went to greet them at the beginning of the Jubilee, asking them to pray for peace; he went to [...]