When Pope Leo XIV was elected pope, the assembled crowd reacted with joy but also with surprise: He was the first pope from ...

S tanding in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

A journalist shares some biographical information on who St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV's order, was.

Pope Leo's quotation of Augustine after his election contains within it an important theological point about the nature of ...

Video above: Augustinian friar friends of new pope watch him deliver his first Sunday prayer The requirements and ethos of the order are traced to the fifth century St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the ...

“Augustinian” is the word most often used to describe the cast of mind of Pope Leo XIV. He used it himself in his first papal ...

St. Augustine of Hippo was a theologian, writer, preacher, rhetorician and bishop, Augustinian.org says. Aurelius Augustine was born in 354 at Tagaste, Algeria. He was the son of Patricius, a ...

The former Rev. Robert Prevost was twice elected superior of the order which was formed in the 13th century as a community of “mendicant” friars.

I never thought I’d live to see an American pope. And yet, here we are: Pope Leo, a humble son of Chicago, a scholar steeped ...

COMMENTARY: The words of the doctor of the Church, In Illo uno unum — ‘In the One, we are one’ — express the spiritual unity ...

On the day of his election, Pope Leo XIV received the gift of a silver pectoral cross containing the relics of Pope St. Leo ...