ROME (AP) — Leo has emphasized that he is very much a “child of St. Augustine,” the 5th-century theologian who inspired the 13th-century religious Augustinian order as a community of “mendicant” ...
VATICAN CITY Pope Leo XIV on Thursday decided to declare St. John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th century ...
In his first public remarks as Pope Leo XIV, Chicago-born Father Robert Prevost declared, “I am a son of St. Augustine.” The young Prevost attended St. Augustine Seminary High School in Michigan.