Leo XIV. The quiet firmness of the new pontificate
At a time when a new shake-up was feared, the Conclave chose composure. Robert Francis Prevost, the first U.S.-born pope-now Leo XIV-embodied a figure capable of holding together different worlds, North America and Latin America, Augustinian sobriety and canonical expertise, pastoral charisma and institutional coolness. More than anything else, he traversed ecclesial complexity without turning […]