One Year in: How Chicago's Pope Leo XIV Has Led the Catholic Church and Challenged Washington
He has pressed peace, defended migrants and refugees, and drawn a public rebuke from Donald Trump that lifted his profile.
- On Friday, May 8, 2026, Pope Leo XIV marked his first anniversary as head of the Roman Catholic Church, a year defined by vocal peace advocacy and escalating tension with President Donald Trump.
- Tensions intensified as Leo's peace advocacy amid the U.S. war with Iran prompted Trump to criticize his stance on nuclear weapons, claiming the Pope is "endangering a lot of Catholics."
- The Chicago-born Pope has sparked a "Leo effect" in the United States, with Father Dave Dwyer of Busted Halo noting that many Catholic churches are seeing their highest membership numbers in recent years.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Leo at the Vatican on Thursday to address bilateral concerns, following the Pope's recent eleven-day tour through four African countries in April.
- With a six-day visit to Spain planned for June, observers await the Pope's first encyclical to clarify his theological direction, as historian Jörg Ernesti noted it remains "open where this pope's theological journey is heading.
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When Pope Leo XIV responded to Donald Trump's provocations with a solemn "If anyone wants to criticize me for announcing the Gospel, let him do so with the...
One year in: How Chicago's Pope Leo XIV has led the Catholic Church and challenged Washington
One year ago, Cardinal Robert Prevost from the South Side of Chicago stepped through the velvet curtains framing the Vatican balcony and into history as the first American to lead the world's largest Christian denomination.His first words as Pope Leo XIV, peace be with you. This message has remained at the core of his first year as leader of the Catholic faith.Pope Leo embraced his roots from the start, sharing his love for Chicago's deep-dish p…
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Diario La VerdadOn Friday, Leo XIV celebrated his first anniversary as a pope, after several weeks marked by an arm of iron with Washington.
Pope Leo XIV one year in office
By Christopher Lamb, CNN. Pope Leo XIV is marking the first anniversary of his historic election, a period in which he has gone from a low-profile cardinal to one of the most recognizable figures on the planet. His election made something once considered impossible a reality: an American pope. However, his pontificate has witnessed a historic period of tension between the White House and the Vatican, after the Augustinian friar assumed the papac…
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