Pope pledges strengthened dialogue with Jews May 13, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Among his first messages, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to strengthen the Catholic Church’s ties with the Jewish community.
‘He’s always been a brother to us’: Villanova Augustinian prior reflects on future Pope Leo XIV May 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Augustinian Father Robert Hagan said that fellow order member Pope Leo XIV has “always been a brother to us” — one who encouraged him from his early days to his own leadership role in the order.
Who is St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” St. Augustine’s famous words addressed to God introduce his account of how a headstrong, self-indulgent young man became one of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint — and the father of the Augustinian order, to which Pope Leo XIV belongs.
Who are the Augustinians, Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The first American pope has spoken in the past with affection about the fifth-century convert, bishop and intellectual powerhouse considered the father of his religious order, the Order of St. Augustine.
‘I felt heard’: Catholic school teacher recalls life-changing talk with future pope May 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Days before he was elected, Pope Leo XIV (then Cardinal Robert F. Prevost) received a ringing endorsement from a Catholic school teacher in New Jersey — one the pope-to-be apparently read just hours before entering the conclave at which he would be chosen.
‘We look toward the new pontiff with Christian hope,’ says ecumenical patriarch May 12, 2025By Laura Ieraci OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said he hopes Pope Leo XIV will “be a dear brother and collaborator … for the rapprochement of our churches, for the unity of the whole Christian family, and for the benefit of all of humankind.”
New pope to celebrate three public Masses in May May 12, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s schedule of public liturgies in May includes events revolving around the inauguration of his ministry, visits to Rome’s major basilicas and a celebration of priestly ordinations.
Pope Leo’s motto, coat of arms pay homage to St. Augustine May 12, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s devotion to St. Augustine, his life and ministry as a member of the Augustinian order and his focus on the unity of the church are reflected in his episcopal motto and coat of arms.
Chiclayo, Peru — where Leo XIV was bishop — celebrates one of own becoming pope May 12, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Peruvians have greeted the election of Pope Leo with elation, pride and even disbelief that an adopted prelate whose pastoral formation came as a Augustinian missionary in poor and undeveloped parts of Peru could become pope and represent the country on the world stage.
Ukrainian president speaks with Pope Leo, invites him to Ukraine May 12, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Pope Leo XIV for his support of a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, and he invited the newly-elected pontiff to visit the war-torn nation.
Our unexpected pope May 12, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican It is a reminder, as always, that when it comes to scoring papabile, usually those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.
Besides Leo XIII, 12 other popes have shared that name with new pontiff; 5 are saints May 12, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News Aside from Leo XIII, himself not canonized, there have been 12 others who share a name with the new pope, and five of those predecessors attained the heights of sanctity and have been proclaimed saints.
