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Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's on June 24, 2025, on the Jubilee of Seminarians (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Prevost's Past, Leo's Future

What we know about the new pope—and what we don’t and can’t
The Editors
July 8, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
Vatican

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Pope Leo and Women

Instead of an assembly of men trying to come up with a theology that explains women, I want to see the Church settle on one theology for everyone.
By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly
July 14, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
Women in the Church
Article

Pope Leo, OSA

To be Augustinian is to be shaped by a deep sense of both interiority and community. That sense will likely be at the heart of Leo XIV's papacy.
By Terence Sweeney
May 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
Religion
Religious Life
Article

‘Nice Boy Up from the Parishes’

Chicago Catholicism is distinctive and one of its own is now the pope. What might Robert Prevost's South Side upbringing teach us about the man who would become Leo XIV?
By Margaret O’Brien Steinfels
June 4, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
Religion
U.S. Catholicism
Article

The Papacy and the Hinterlands

Our increased access to papal personality does not give us increased insight into the papal future.
By Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
May 27, 2025
Pope Leo XIV
Religion
History
Article

A Sequel to ‘Rerum Novarum’?

Pope Leo XIV’s choice of papal name is profoundly significant. What might the new pontiff have to say about the social and technological challenges facing us in the 2020s?
By Anthony Annett
May 19, 2025
Social Justice
Pope Leo XIV
Religion

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