I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my short conversation with Cardinal Robert Prevost, I could tell he was a good listener,

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

George Weigel held a public lecture at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on the “10 Markers of a Church ‘Permanently in Mission’” on Wednesday in Rome.