Sunday, May 11, 2025

Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian friar. Here’s what that means

Then-Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, smiles as he arrives to celebrate Mass at St. Jude Church in New Lenox, Ill., Aug. 7, 2024. (OSV News photo/Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel/ handout via Reuters) 

Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. In this episode, the team discusses the Augustinian (and American) roots of Pope Leo XIV.

They discuss:

  • Pope Leo XIV is an alum of Villanova University. What’s the atmosphere is like on campus right now?
  • The Augustinian roots of Pope Leo: the intellectual, spiritual and social principles that will lead his ministry
  • How poverty, chastity and obedience are a path to freedom and joy

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Links from the show:

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/05/11/conclave-podcast-pope-leo-xiv-augustinian-roots-250655 

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