Lead development · 9/28/2026, 7:17:35 AM UTC
Leo building on Francis' legacy while reincorporating 'more traditional elements of papal activity'
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Miles Pattenden, historian of the Catholic Church at the University of Oxford. For Pattenden, Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France is part of a broader recalibration of the papacy. While Pope Francis placed particular emphasis on the Catholic Church’s peripheries and the needs of the Gl…