Pope Leo XIV gave a speech on October 23, to participants in the World Meeting of Popular Movements, and with it brought a central question (back) into sharp focus: Who really is Leo XIV?

It’s a question pretty much everyone has had, petty much right from the beginning of his still-very-young pontificate, and [...]

Leo XIV visited Italy’s President, he pulled out all the stops. Leo and President Sergio Mattarella met at the Quirinal Palace this past week, on Oct. 14, in a visit that used the entire ritual of a state visit, an unmistakable signal.

Pope Francis had preferred simplified visits, and refused the escort of mounted [...]

The week in which Leo XIV published his first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te, was also the week in which he made the first governing decision that overrode a decision of his predecessor – on the subject of Vatican finances – and that is no small matter.

Dilexi Te is, in fact, profoundly the work [...]

Pope Leo XIV has made his first major curial appointment. As prefect of the Dicastery of Bishops, the Pope has chosen Bishop Filippo Iannone, who has headed the Dicastery for Legislative Texts since 2017.

This is only the first of many appointments he will need to make, marking the beginning of what will prove [...]