A year into papacy, Leo finds his 'clarion voice'
He is expected to release his first teaching document this month and will make five trips inside Italy through July.
- On Friday, Pope Leo marks his first anniversary leading the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church with a ramped-up public schedule, having grown increasingly outspoken on the world stage and drawn ire from President Donald Trump.
- Pope Leo, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost, succeeded Pope Francis in May 2025 after a two-day conclave, adopting a more assertive approach than Francis's 12-year tenure aimed at modernizing the institution.
- Following his April Africa trip, Leo warned the world is 'being ravaged by a handful of tyrants,' while Trump insulted the pope as 'weak' and 'terrible' after Leo criticized the Israeli war on Iran.
- Pope Leo meets Thursday with State Marco Rubio, his first in-person meeting with a Trump cabinet member in nearly a year, where Rubio expects a 'frank conversation' regarding administration policies.
- The pope is expected to release his first encyclical this month addressing global ethical challenges including artificial intelligence, while Leo will visit Pompei and Naples this year as part of five planned pastoral trips throughout Italy.
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Far from the "bulldozer" style of his predecessor Francis, he first sought to gather in the Vatican. In recent months, his criticisms against various leaders, including Donald Trump, show that the American religious also knows how to be heard.
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elcorreoweb.esLast year, L’Osservatore Romano, that Vatican daily often belt of transmission of the most Sibilian but also more unequivocal messages of the institution, defined the way in which the new Pope had wanted to present himself to the world: “a morning breeze.” Then Rome as a geopolitical voice was still respected, yes, but he was no longer able to move the tectonic plates of a world at war, from Gaza to Ukraine.Keep reading....
The first Pope from the USA contradicts the President of the United States like hardly anyone else - and gets a lot of praise for it. You are not so satisfied with other things, especially in Germany.
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