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Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Mass for the opening of the general chapter of the Order of St. Augustine on Sept. 1, 2025.

Book to feature Pope Leo XIV’s writings and meditations as Augustinian prior

Oct 16, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

The tome will include, for the first time, the writings of the current pontiff during his term as prior general... Read more

Pope Leo XIV is pictured here with his Augustinian brothers in Rome on Sept. 15, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV meets with his Augustinian brothers in Rome

Sep 15, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

Pope Leo XIV on Monday received the participants of the general chapter of the Order of St. Augustine, with whom... Read more

The Lecceto hermitage near Siena, Italy.

Augustinian nuns of Lecceto reflect on life of prayer and friendship with Pope Leo XIV

May 27, 2025

By Veronica Giacometti

Sister Sara Maria of the Augustinian nuns of Lecceto speaks about the activities of the monastery in the province of... Read more

Spanish Augustinian Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín and Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV.

Synod undersecretary: Leo XIV ‘doesn’t govern from his office, he goes out to meet people’

May 22, 2025

By Victoria Cardiel

The Spanish Augustinian Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín is among those who have collaborated most closely with Pope Leo... Read more

The classic coat of arms of the Order of St. Augustine.

Priest accused of sex abuse dismissed from Augustinians over ‘disagreement’ with superior

May 16, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Father Richard McGrath was allegedly barred from the order “following a prolonged period of disagreement with his direct superior.” Read more

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.

Future Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral thesis offers clues to his pontificate 

May 15, 2025

By Hannah Brockhaus

According to the rector of Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral thesis has a vision... Read more

Pope Leo XIV addresses cardinals in the Sistine Chapel during his first Mass as Pope, Friday, May 9, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV’s Augustinian brothers reflect on new papacy

May 10, 2025

By Tyler Arnold

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22... Read more

St. Augustine is the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and a number of cities and dioceses.

Who are the Augustinians? A look at Pope Leo XIV’s religious order

May 10, 2025

By Jonah McKeown

Pope Leo XIV, elected on Thursday, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), also known as... Read more