Future Pope Leo XIV's doctoral thesis offers clues to his pontificate
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Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White reads the thesis of then-Father Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, titled "The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of St. Augustine," which Prevost wrote while a student at Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in the early 1980s. / Credit: Zofia Czubak/EWTN News Vatican City, May 15, 2025 / 13:25 pm (CNA).According to the rector of Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Leo XIV's doctoral thesis has a vision that could be extended to the papacy.
Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White reads the thesis of then-Father Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, titled "The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of St. Augustine," which Prevost wrote while a student at Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in the early 1980s. / Credit: Zofia Czubak/EWTN News
Vatican City, May 15, 2025 / 13:25 pm (CNA).
According to the rector of Rome's Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Leo XIV's doctoral thesis has a vision that could be extended to the papacy.
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Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a vocal evangelical Christian who was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, speaking at an event in Texas in 2018. / Credit: Carrington Tatum/ShutterstockWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced he is seeking the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with murdering Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk."I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty," Gray said in a Sept. 16 news conference. "I do not take this decision lightly, and it is a decision I have made independently as county attorney based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime."Robinson is charged with seven crimes, the most serious of which is aggravated murder. Utah's criminal code has two forms of intentional homicide: "murder" and the more serious "aggravated murder."The maximum sentence for murder is life in prison, but an aggravated murder charge ...
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Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his weekly general audience on Sept. 17, 2025, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican MediaCNA Staff, Sep 18, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).Pope Leo XIV downplayed concerns of the ongoing financial crisis at the Vatican in a recent interview, arguing that "things are going to be OK" regarding the Holy See's finances even as more work is needed. The Holy Father made the remarks as part of a wide-ranging interview with Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen. The interview appears in Allen's biography on the pontiff, "Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century," published in Spanish on Sept. 18. An English version of the book will be published in early 2026. Allen asked Leo about the financial situation of the Vatican, noting that the pope has previously indicated that the crisis is "not as bad as it's sometimes been made out to be." The Holy See's pension fund has been facing a major shortfall af...
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In his homily at the Sept. 13, 2025, diaconate ordination of nine Mill Hill Missionaries members, Bishop John Oballa Owaa of the Diocese of Ngong in Kenya lauded young members of the congregation for not allowing anything to stand in their way to evangelize. / Credit: Mill Hill MissionariesACI Africa, Sep 18, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).Members of the Mill Hill Missionaries (MHM) go to lands where they risk their own lives for the kingdom of God, Bishop John Oballa Owaa of the Diocese of Ngong in Kenya said in his homily Sept. 13 at the diaconate ordination of nine MHM members.Oballa lauded the young members of the congregation for not allowing anything to stand in their way of spreading the Gospel.He narrated a conversation he had with a MHM member who he said was eager to embark on mission in Pakistan, where Christian persecution has been shown to be rising."I remember a young parishioner who became a Mill Hill missionary telling me without any voice that seeks sympathy, without an...
