Overview
- Announcing the choice on December 29, Treccani framed the pontificate around sobriety, measure and listening, elevating a call for a “disarmed and disarming” peace.
- Editors of the Libro dell’anno said the Church under Leone XIV has become a new protagonist on the international stage, with the Pope avoiding ideological labels and limiting personal spotlight.
- Coverage highlights more than ninety episcopal appointments in seven months and the selection of Monsignor Filippo Iannone to lead the Dicastery for Bishops, signaling governance focused on pastoral rootedness.
- Reported administrative moves include scrapping a fundraising commission, restoring Basilica and Fabbrica di San Pietro oversight to the economic dicastery, enforcing retirement norms and re‑centering canonical procedure.
- Forthcoming milestones include closing the Holy Door on January 6 and an extraordinary consistory, following a late‑2025 Middle East trip and with 2026 journeys expected in Africa, Latin America and likely Spain; Leone XIV is the first U.S. and first Augustinian pope, with missionary experience in Peru.