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In choosing his papal name, Pope Leo XIV clearly identified himself with the noted author of Catholic social teaching, Leo XIII. Yet the legacy of his name goes back much further....
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A conservative official invoked God in the context of war and a supposedly liberal pope rebuked him. The exchange is then cast as a political disagreement, or at most as an instance of religion being deployed on both sides of a geopolitical conflict....
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The pope will touch down in Algeria on April 13 to kick off a four-nation tour of the African continent. One of his first stops will be a daylong visit to Annaba, the site of ancient Hippo....
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In an unprecedented joint interview, the three U.S. cardinals forcefully echoed Pope Leo XIV's calls for peace and repeated his, and their own, distress about the Trump administration's anti-immigrant policies....
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But the exchange that followed matters more than the accusation. Confronted with criticism from Trump, Leo did not retreat. He made his position explicit: he was not afraid to speak, because his task was to proclaim the gospel....
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The Pope is not against a president: he is against war. More precisely, he opposes the mental, spiritual, and political mechanism that renders war thinkable, acceptable, and ultimately inevitable....
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During Pope Leo XIV's Prayer Vigil for Peace in the world, the Pope appeals to leaders of nations to stop and sit at the table of dialogue and mediation, "not at the table where rearmament is planned and deadly actions are decided!"...
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“Let us continue to pray for the gift of peace for the whole world,” Pope Leo said. Australians have been urged to take up the invitation of Pope Leo XIV to pray for peace on April 11....
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Pope Leo XIV asks "all people of goodwill to always search for peace and to reject war," calls for a return to the negotiating table to pursue peaceful solutions, and notes that attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law....