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By Simone Orendain, OSV News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHICAGO (OSV News) \u2014 One of the first things Pope Leo XIV said from the balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica upon his election May 8, 2025, was \u201cI am a son of St. Augustine, an Augustinian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement<\/a> signaled to the world and its 1.4 billion Catholics that they were going to experience a papacy heavily influenced by a Church Father and doctor of the Church \u2014 one whose extensive writings have endured the past 16 centuries and continue to shape the Church today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Leo<\/a>\u2018s brothers in the Order of St. Augustine have said their patron\u2019s way has marked, and so far defined, the pope\u2019s leadership over his first year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile it is true that Augustine is an intellectual giant, particularly when we think of his theological and doctrinal contributions, I also see his pastoral contributions \u2014 which are grounded in the human experience and his understanding of the human experience,\u201d said Augustinian Father Kevin DePrinzio<\/a>, who serves in Rome an assistant general for English-speaking provinces of the Order of St. Augustine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an email to OSV, Father DePrinzio pointed to St. Augustine\u2019s Confessions, as one of the theologian\u2019s best-known works that remains popular to this day. The long, introspective prayer to God about his life from sin \u2014 which included cohabiting with a woman as a teenager, fathering a child out of wedlock and other lust-driven pursuits, all while doing his utmost to impress his school peers with his intellect and disobeying his parents \u2014 to discovering the heart\u2019s restlessness in its search for God and receiving God\u2019s grace, to his conversion to Catholicism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community and friendship: the heart of faith<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Father DePrinzio said the book highlights the saint as \u201cone of the first (theologians) to begin to articulate a Christian understanding of friendship<\/a>\u201d and \u201cthat somehow in and through relationship, God is found.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis, I believe, contributes to Leo\u2019s pastoral approach. We hear Leo often speaking about being \u2018together,\u2019 and the importance of not going at it alone,\u201d said the former vice president of mission and ministry at the Augustinian-founded Villanova University, Pope Leo\u2019s own alma mater in suburban Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat the human person is meant to be in relationship, to live in the potential of encountering the other as a friend, to search for home and belonging,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis drives Leo\u2019s call to engage in dialogue<\/a>, to reach out, and to walk together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An example of that call was evident in Pope Leo\u2019s first video message to young people, which aired in Chicago\u2019s Rate Field at the Archdiocese of Chicago\u2019s celebration and Mass of thanksgiving for the first American pope\u2019s election, held June 14, 2025. He described the Trinity as a community of love, and told young people to \u201ccontinue to build up community, friendship as brothers and sisters, in your daily lives, in your parishes, in the archdiocese and throughout our world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augustinian Father Allan Fitzgerald, an Augustine scholar and former director of Villanova\u2019s Augustinian Institution, said Pope Leo is teaching that \u201cfaith doesn\u2019t just touch the head. It also touches the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAugustine learned to be a person of heart,\u201d he explained. He said the saint\u2019s mother, St. Monica<\/a>, was \u201ca person of heart\u201d and his father was an \u201cirascible\u201d businessman, yet St. Augustine saw his parents eventually come to be \u201con the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo the pulling together of head and heart was a crucial piece of his own growing and his own development,\u201d Father Fitzgerald said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s what is, in fact, happening in the life of Pope Leo at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The future Pope Leo XIV visits with Augustinian sisters in Peru in this undated photo. As an Augustinian priest, then-Father Robert F. Prevost spent many years as a missionary in Peru and also served as bishop of that country’s Diocese of Chiclayo. A Chicago native, he was elected pope May 8, 2025, at the Vatican, becoming the first American pope in history. (OSV News photo\/courtesy Augustinian Sister Carmen Toledano)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Augustinian spirit of Leo XIV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Father Fitzgerald, 85, has edited the St. Augustine Bible, teaches at Villanova and regularly holds international retreats on St. Augustine for fellow Augustinians. He told OSV News this relationship between the head and heart is apparent in St. Augustine\u2019s definition of friendship, especially that he had \u201call sorts of dimensions to what it means to be a good friend<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think in some ways, friendship is the thing that underlies that whole head and heart combination. It\u2019s hard to be a really good friend if you\u2019re not in some way pulling your own self together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His fellow Augustinians have observed the way Pope Leo has maintained the strong sense of Augustinian community throughout his pastoral journey, which included years as a missionary in Peru<\/a>, leadership roles with the order, and now as the vicar of Christ leading his flock throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father Tom McCarthy, the incoming Midwest Augustinians\u2019 provincial superior, told OSV News that Pope Leo continues to sustain relationships in person with Augustinians in Rome and via text and email with others worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to support him and say, \u2018Keep it going. Good job,’\u201d said Father McCarthy, who is stepping into a role in the Chicago-based province that Pope Leo \u2014 then Father Robert Prevost<\/a> \u2014 once held himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spiritual life and community: His pastoral style<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Father McCarthy, 60, currently is the province\u2019s vocations director. He said each week, the friars read and reflect on one chapter of Augustine\u2019s eight-chapter rule. \u201cThroughout the year, you\u2019re reading the rule completely six times,\u201d he said of the Augustinians, whose order was established in 1244 and based on a rule of life St. Augustine wrote around 400. \u201cAnd we\u2019re doing it because Augustine said, \u2018This should be read to you once a week.\u2019 Just as you look in a mirror to see how you look, you look through this rule in a mirror of your spiritual life<\/a>. How are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father McCarthy said the rule gives guidance on how to live together in community, how to carry out fraternal correction and dealing with the difficulties of religious life, among other rubrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that Pope Leo entered the order\u2019s minor<\/a> seminary at 13 years old, giving him \u201c56 years of being formed and trained in the way of Augustine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo this is nothing new for (the former Father Prevost) as pope,\u201d said Father McCarthy. \u201cThis is him just being who he is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also noted the pope often quotes St. Augustine in his messages and homilies or refers to his writings, just as his brothers do regularly in conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the world stage, Pope Leo also has not shied away from directly addressing the U.S.-Israel war with Iran<\/a> and other conflicts around the world, by vehemently calling for peace. And he said he would continue to \u201cspeak loudly of the message of (peace of) the Gospel\u201d even in the face of President Donald Trump\u2019s lengthy, scathing post April 12 on his Truth Social account. Trump called Pope Leo \u201cweak on crime and terrible for foreign policy\u201d saying his being in the White House made it possible for Pope Leo, the first American pope, to \u201cbe in the Vatican.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pope has also spoken out about the U.S. government\u2019s immigration crackdown<\/a> that has led to thousands of arrests of those without proper authorization to remain in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the One, we are one,\u201d the pontiff\u2019s motto<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Father Fitzgerald said the times call for the pope speaking out on what is morally wrong, just as St. Augustine did when he refuted the heresy of Manichaeism, a dualistic faith using cosmology to explain the forces of good versus evil while incorporating elements of Christianity and other religions. Talking about morality amid \u201cso-called political decisions is really just a way of being human,\u201d Father Fitzgerald said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Father DePrinzio sees Pope Leo through the lens of the Augustinians\u2019 father. \u201cSt. Augustine was concerned about fostering unity and communion<\/a>\u201d and he \u201cwas masterful at dialogue and in bringing people to the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Pope Leo on the world stage, \u201cwe will see (and have already seen) Leo call for encounter and dialogue, engage difference, gather, bring together and cut through polarization,\u201d he said in his email. \u201cIt\u2019s in his bones to be this way, and it\u2019s up to us and the world to listen attentively to this invitation to go deeper together, to walk together, as St. Augustine urged his followers 1,600 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, Father DePrinzio said, is also reflected in Pope Leo\u2019s motto, drawn from one of St. Augustine\u2019s sermons: \u201cIn Illo uno unum,\u201d<\/em> or \u201cIn the One, we are one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: Pope Leo XIV talks with the Augustinian nuns at the Monastery of St. Clare of the Cross in Montefalco, Italy, Nov. 20, 2025. (CNS photo\/Vatican Media)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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