Pope Leo XIV – made in Peru

18 September 2025, The Tablet

Pope Leo, as the then Bishop of Chiclayo, Robert Prevost, says Mass in Motupe, Peru in 2018

Alamy/AP, Julio Reano

Is it Leo’s task to tamp down or halt what Francis upheaved? For answers, we need not look far: Allen’s wife, Elise Ann Allen, also an American journalist and Vaticanista, this week publishes the first in-depth study of Leo XIV, drawing on his first sit-down interviews as Pope

‘All that we are hearing about today in the talk about synodality, we were doing in the 1980s in Chulucanas’

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