It’s been called “the trial of the century” – a monicker or epithet it shares, not without some irony, with several other trials of the past two decades – but it has a claim to the title inasmuch as it represents the first time in history a cardinal faced charges tried in the ordinary [...]

The picture emerging of Leo XIV is not one of a Pope who makes impetuous choices or grand gestures, but of a thoughtful Pope who calmly weighs every decision.

With the appointment of Monsignor Miroslaw Wachowski as nuncio to Iraq, for example, Leo XIV may have laid the first piece in what promises to [...]

If there’s one thing we know about Leo XIV, it’s that we still don’t know much about him. When you search for a line of thought, you inevitably come across an exception. When you think you’ve found a fundamental idea, the Pope turns into what appears to be the opposite direction.

The truth is [...]

After one hundred days of Pope Leo XIV in office, there is curiosity and even anxiety over how the still very young pontificate will develop. Those who want radical change cannot understand why the Pope does not rid himself of what they consider the remnants of Francis’s pontificate. But those who have enthusiastically experienced [...]

You likely missed it if you weren’t paying very close attention, but Pope Leo XIV this past week articulated a vision of Catholic participation in public life, which is sure to be a cornerstone of his whole teaching pontificate and a keystone of his political philosophy.

Leo’s speech to Catholic politicians from the