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

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 [...]

The appeal ruling on former Auditor General Libero Milone, released last week, is just one of the aftermaths of the season of Vatican trials inherited by Leo XIV. But the ruling is particularly significant because it reveals, in some ways, the situation Leo XIV will have to resolve.

Libero Milone was the Vatican Auditor [...]