CROWN POINT — May 10 is a special date for Terry Deffenbaugh. On that date 50 years ago, he became an Augustinian priest. That title took on extra meaning for the resident of Saint Anthony ...

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There, he was ordained as a priest, studied for a doctorate in the canon laws that govern the church, and moved for the first time into the Augustinian order’s house, playing tennis and table ...

It’s an issue that Prevost would have dealt with as a superior of the Augustinian religious order ... said Prevost’s canon law thesis demonstrated a “very mature and nuanced” understanding ...

But the new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to the handful of Augustinian friars who serve in the basilica in a hilltop medieval village — and the tight-knit community of Augustinians worldwide.

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

But the new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to the handful of Augustinian friars who serve in the basilica in a hilltop medieval village — and the tight-knit community of Augustinians worldwide.