Resources for Pope Leo XIV: What Happened, Why, and What It Means for Catholic Social Thought and U.S. Public Life
July 10, 2025
These resources come from the Public Dialogue Pope Leo XIV: What Happened, Why, and What It Means for Catholic Social Thought and U.S. Public Life.
Articles
- A book on Pope Leo's rise already? Chris White's compelling account takes a long view. (Religion News Service)
- El Papa Prevost, el elegido de Francisco para continuar el proceso (Religion Digital)
- HABEMUS PAPAM: Leo XIV is 1st US pope chosen to lead Catholic Church (National Catholic Reporter)
- The Early Edition: Two ‘insta-books’ offer two very different views of the new pope (Commonweal)
- The pope from Chicago backed Pope Francis' major church reforms (National Catholic Reporter)
- With Leo, there’s no going back from Francis (Washington Post)
- What Pope Leo XIV means for the U.S. Catholic church and Trump (Washington Post)
Books
Letters and Statements
- Rerum Novarum (Pope Leo XIII, Vatican)
Podcasts
- How Pope Leo XIV was elected (Jesuitical, America Media)
- Who is Pope Leo? | The Peru Years: A dictator, terrorists and a missionary priest (Inside the Vatican, America Media)
Videos
- Cardinal Joseph Tobin Describes The Moment Pope Leo XIV Accepted That He’d Been Elected Pope (Forbes)
- First American pope elected (CNN)
- Pope Francis’ Legacy: “That humility really was a hallmark of his papacy” (CNN)
- León de Perú (Vatican)
Websites
- Media Around Pope Francis’ Legacy and Pope Leo XIV’s Election (Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life)
- Pontifical Commission for Latin America at the Holy See (Vatican)