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After four rounds of voting, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the loggia of St Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening local time. The Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope from North America, the first Augustian pope, and the first native English-speaker in the role in 800 years.
But who is Leo XIV, who are his namesakes, and how will his religious order, the Augustians, shape his papacy? He will draw inspiration from Leo XIII, who was pope at the dawn of the 20th century and steered the church through industrial modernity, just as Leo XIV must now guide his church through the challenges of the digital and divided modern world. As Darius von Guttner Sporzynski writes, he will be a leader for “the vulnerable worker, the displaced migrant and the
wounded planet”.
On the loggia, Leo XIV greeted the world with “peace be with all of you” in a range of languages. This sense of unity, peace and cultural breadth seems to be the founding idea that Leo XIV will carry into his role as head of the Catholic Church.
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Jane Howard
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Leo XIV will work to translate the ideal of one heart, one mind into structures that protect the vulnerable worker, the displaced migrant and the wounded planet.
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