Pope Leo XIV has taken a much more calculated, institutional approach, one that reflects his status as a Vatican “insider” in contrast with Pope Francis, who never held a Vatican role before his election.
Colleen Dulle
Colleen Dulle is the Vatican Correspondent at America and co-hosts the "Inside the Vatican" podcast. She is the author of Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter (Image, 2025).
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Cardinal Czerny on sustainability, AIDS and AI
“Sustainability is not like a kind of a personal achievement. Sustainability is because we all pull in the same direction,” Cardinal Czerny said after receiving the inaugural Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal.
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Pope’s brother speaks about Leo’s cancer diagnosis and recovery in new interview
Louis Prevost said that although it was “panic city” when the family first found out that Leo might have cancer, “after the day of surgery, when they reported that they got it all, it was clean and pretty straightforward.”
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What will Pope Leo’s lung cancer diagnosis mean for his papacy?
Faced with the prospect of a shorter-than-expected papacy, questions arise about how Pope Leo might approach his time as pontiff going forward.
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A skeptic visits Lourdes
A Reflection for the Optional Memorial of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, by Colleen Dulle
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What to know about Pope Leo’s cancer diagnosis
The Vatican announced last night that Pope Leo XIV’s surgery Tuesday afternoon confirmed the diagnosis that had already been indicated by his pre-operation tests: pulmonary adenocarcinoma, the most common type of non-small cell lung cancer.
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‘Amoris’ meeting discusses divorce and remarriage among human ‘fragilities’
Cardinal Farrell invited the bishops and the 22 lay participants at the meeting to “speak truthfully” and listen to stories of the “complexity of family life.”
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‘Amoris’ participants agree that one major issue is affecting families: Migration.
On the first day of the Vatican’s closed-door meeting on “Amoris Laetitia,” “human mobility and migration were mentioned by all the groups.”
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‘Amoris Laetitia’ and its tough questions are here to stay
Some critics of Pope Francis had remained hopeful that a Leo papacy would bring some reversals of his teachings. Instead, in almost every case, Leo has doubled down, as he is doing this week.
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The bold canon law changes from the synod now on Pope Leo’s desk
Though published to little fanfare, recommendations from the synod’s canon law commission represent the first step toward codifying synodality into the church’s law.