Karol! However, what is the meaning of the name when it comes to a modifika – and more specifically, that of the new Pope 14th?
White tobacco from Sistine Hat earlier this evening (08.05.2025) revealed to the world that a young Pontiff to succeed Francis – and for the first time the young Pope Leo is a North American, 69 years old, and says he is not one.
However, according to an analysis by the Guardian, the name of the new Roman Catholic Church, which belongs to the Augustine Order, has a long history in the Catholic Church, and some of its predecessors were even found under Spantium rulers and succumbed to their lists.
The fact that Prevost decided to become Leo ID has made the Catholics to memory the previous Pope Leo – Leo III – and his teaching document of 1891, Of the revolutionarywhich described the employee rights In fair salary, safe working conditions and employee rights to participate in unions.
If Pope Francis was the “Pope of the People”, then Leo is ready to be the “Pope of the Workers”.
Here is the Apostolic Blessing from our new Pope, Pope Leo XIV which they explicitly said is meant for everyone around the world and to even to go through social media to you!! pic.twitter.com/N2Mwgh7sgi
– Craig Glantz (@craig_glantz) May 8, 2025
The story of “Pope Leo”
THE Leo A ‘ The so -called Leo the Great was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 440 to 461. He also had the name of the “Doctor of the Church” and had the vigor in 452 to meet in person with Attila in order for his hordes not to invade.
Leo II: He became known as the “short or short Pontiff” as he stayed in the position from 682 to 683 and is the man who ratified the finding of the third meeting of Constantinople.
THE Leo 795–816: He gave the Papal Boula in Charlemagne the title of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 800 and turned him by a stratin, general and warrior into a political figure for the then European world. Charlemagne retaliated “Grace” by offering protection to Leo from his opponents and, by his own decisions, increased the papal land on the Italian peninsula.
Leo II 847–855: His important work is the fortification of the city of Rome and the war he declared against the Saracens.
Leo E. 903: The second shortest priests. Leo E. left on the papal throne for just one month.
Leo 928: Little is also known to Leo in who also had a very short stay at the head of the Catholic Church.
Leo Z 936–939: A defender of humility and a staunch supporter of monastic life. It played an important role in peace with Hungary.
Leo 963–965: For some it is not considered a pope but has been he was in charge of the Catholic doctrine for two years.
Leo (Saint Leo III) 1049–1054: The second saint of the long list of the Catholic Church who chose the name. He was one of the structural reformers of the Catholic doctrine and is considered the man who began the processes that brought the Schism of Eastern and Western Church.
Leo II 1513–1521: Pope from the Medici family; he abolished Martin Luther; he supervised the early period of reform.
Leo IA: April 1605 (27 days): Known as the “Pope Lightning” because of his extremely short papacy. He stayed on the papal throne less than Leo’s distant predecessor.
Leo Ib – 1823–1829: Conservative Pope; opposed modern liberalism.
Leo III – 1878–1903: Famous for Rerum Novarum circular for workers’ rights. A staunch defender of the weak and the workers. For many it has remained in history as the only “Communist Pope”.
Who is Leo the 14th
But why prevost is one American with a difference;
It is a clergyman who has spent much of his life abroad. While born in Chicago, USA, joined the religious battalion of Augustinianthen became one of their missionaries in Peru and later became a bishop there by Pope Francis.
This experience will have given him a completely different perspective on America and the role of the US in the world – an understanding of how Latin America can see her giant neighbor with suspicion and how, for many Latin Americans, the Church has to do with her release and not with the observance of a rigid line of delivery.
How will the new Pope be?
The Catholic Church in the US is deep divisive. On the one hand, there are those who supported Donald Trump in the last election and embrace Jay Di Vance’s view that there is one class of love that puts above all the familyafter the neighborhood and much below, the rest of the humanity.
Then there are those who agree with Pope Francis that this is an incorrect interpretation of Christianity – Leo is probably agreeing with his predecessor.
For the Cardinals in the Conclave who thought who should be the next leader of the Catholic Church, they had examined the leadership abilities, pastoral experience, Vatican knowledge and cruelty.
Robert Prevost has all that. He led his religious battalion as a abbot, he has worked in a diocese and since 2023 he is responsible for the Vatican section who chooses the bishops.
The estimate is that it has set the existence of a compassionate or pastoral approach as a priority for choosing those who are part of the bishopric.
But the 12 meetings of the cardinals brought to the forefront of the Need to continue Pope Francis’ ambitions For a church that will give the lay people more reason, which must continue to defend the creation of God in an age of environmental crisis- and who should continue to find a role for women in the Church.
Pope Francis has appointed some women in senior roles in the Vatican, but men’s dominance in the church has been obvious in recent days, as the 133 male cardinals entered the Sistine Hat to vote for the 1.4 -year -old leader.
But if the cardinals were sure of one thing in their meetings before the concussion, that was that the new pope should be the epitome of a modifika.
In his words from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo ID said to the multitude of 40,000 people and the millions of Catholics who were watching around the world that: “We must be a church that builds bridges».
The young Pope has only to turn his eyes to his homeland, the US, to see how detrimental this division can be – and to know how damaging this division is in the church as well. Workers’ Pope should be a pope of the section.