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 [...]

Cardinal Agostino Vallini is 85 years old and has not held any Vatican office for some time. Since 2017, however, he had been papal legate to the Papal Basilicas of Assisi, a position to which Pope Francis had appointed him following the death of Cardinal Attilio Nicora. On July 16, Vallini also left that [...]

Father Alejandro Moral, superior of the Augustinians, let it be known last week in an interview with Il Messaggero that Leo XIV is working on the structure of his first encyclical. The big question is whether the Pope will follow the inspiration that comes from his name, and therefore dedicate the first encyclical of his [...]

The release of two internal reports from Pope Francis’s global consultation of bishops on the reception of the Traditional Latin Mass rekindled a series of controversies over the past week, all centered on the place of older forms of worship in the life of the Church and the place of the people devoted to [...]

The first steps of a pontificate are always an exercise in communication: the new pope—whoever he is—will do small things that speak volumes about his intentions, and that is why it is important to watch new pontificates closely and analyse them carefully. The pontificate of Leo XIV is no different in this regard, so [...]

With his visit to the Vatican Radio shortwave broadcasting center in Santa Maria di Galeria, Leo XIV made a highly symbolic gesture. Not so much because that area is the subject of a controversy with the Italian government due to alleged environmental pollution of the center, but because the great reform of Vatican communication [...]