The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine, also known as the Augustinians or OSA, an ...

Experts see the new pontiff as less confrontational than his predecessor, but willing to stand up for the church's teachings.

Rather than a return to Catholic cultural wars, Leo can tackle basics issues of faith and humanity.

Augustinians are distinguished from other religious orders by their emphasis on living together in community — priests and ...

After the liberal Pope Francis years, conservative Catholics might welcome the cultural shift that Leo XIV’s election signals ...

On May 8, Father Thomas Joseph White, the American rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was at St.

Despite the order’s 800-year history – and its Italian origins – Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian to be named a pope.

Pope Leo XIV leads his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. Pope Leo, formerly Cardinal ...

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of his Augustinian religious order during a visit to the congregation’s headquarters ...

The sanctuary is run by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine and “houses an ancient image of the Virgin, dear to the ...

The Order of St. Augustine, with fewer than 3,000 members, shaped the man who would become a cardinal, and then pope to the ...