Shaped by the teachings of Saint Augustine, Pope Leo XIV places unity, humility and interiority at the heart of his mission, ...

The Lateran Synod in 1059 approved Augustine’s “rule” for canons — that is, clerics wanting to follow Augustine’s way of life — and the rule was steadily adopted by many communities ...

Before him, there was Pope Eugene IV (Gabriele Condulmer), elected in 1431, who came from the Order of St. Augustine of the Canons Regular of St. George in Alga, an ancient form of Augustinian ...

Augustinians belong to the Catholic order of St. Augustine. St. Augustine believed in living together in harmony and being of one mind. The recently elected Pope Leo XIV is part of the St ...

An Augustinian and a canon lawyer, Prevost spent over a decade ministering in South America before being called back to the U.S. to head the Augustinian Province of Chicago and was later elected ...

Stories retelling the birth of the Virgin Mary reveal that the Church was more forgiving of infertility than the general ...

The Rev. Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, wrote his doctoral thesis on the way local Augustinian superiors exercise authority ...

Robert Prevost came as a student to do a licence in Canon law. Over the last two and a half years, Ian said he and his fellow Augustinians have seen the new Pope (a cardinal at the time ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost took the name Pope Leo XIV – an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, who championed the rights of ...

Pope Leo XIV earned his doctorate in canon law from Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, where his thesis on the leadership of the Augustinian order may give insight into how the ...

After joining the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and making his solemn vows in 1981, he earned degrees in mathematics, divinity, and canon law—including a doctorate from the Pontifical College ...