‘Peace Be With You’: Pope Leo XIV Steps Onto the World Stage

Photo: Habemus Papam – Pope Leo XIV. Photo credit: Catholic Church (England and Wales) via Flickr. © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Article by Aryn Baker. Time – May 9, 2025.

“Peace be with all of you!” Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the ecstatic crowd gathered in St. Peter’s square, he used the world’s most famous pulpit to promote a vision that, of late, has been more of a wish than reality. “To all people, wherever they are, to all the people of the earth,” he continued, in fluent Italian, “may peace be with you.” He is now tasked with delivering it. […]

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