Overview

• Italian and UK reports say the pope intends to invite three or four Augustinian friars to live with him in the Apostolic Palace.
• Father Edgard Rimaycuna, the pope’s Peruvian personal secretary, is among those named as expected housemates.
• The 10-room third-floor suite is being refurbished after years of disuse, with technicians addressing water infiltration and humidity damage.
• The Vatican has offered no comment on the reported arrangement, which outlets describe as not yet formalized.
• Vatican correspondents say sharing the papal quarters would be new in the modern era and reflects Leo XIV’s Augustinian emphasis on communal life.