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American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV and His Plan to Heal the Church
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN POPE
The Life, Teachings and Leadership Qualities of Pope Leo XIV.
From New York Times bestselling author and noted Catholic historian Dr Paul A portrait of Robert Francis Prevost, his background and life, theological beliefs and teachings, relationship with his predecessors and fellow cardinals and clergy, and rise to become the 267th elected Pontiff and first American Pope, and the challenges he will face and how he is likely to lead the Catholic Church, including interviews with Catholic and papal experts.
Dr Kengor has focused much of his work on Ronald Reagan, faith and the presidency, conservative politics, the Cold War, Communism, and Catholicism, and he will bring his own vast knowledge and expertise, and exclusive interviews with Catholic and Papal experts to his biography of Pope Leo XIV. As the Editor of The American Spectator, executive director and chief academic fellow at the Institute for Faith & Freedom, professor of political science at Grove City College, and author of over twenty books, A Pope and a President, God and Ronald Reagan, and The Divine Plan, Dr Kengor’s POPE LEO THE FIRST AMERICAN PONTIFF will be the definitive biography of Robert Francis Prevost and his likely impact on the Catholic Church and place in the history of Christianity and the world.
The Life, Teachings and Leadership Qualities of Pope Leo XIV.
From New York Times bestselling author and noted Catholic historian Dr Paul A portrait of Robert Francis Prevost, his background and life, theological beliefs and teachings, relationship with his predecessors and fellow cardinals and clergy, and rise to become the 267th elected Pontiff and first American Pope, and the challenges he will face and how he is likely to lead the Catholic Church, including interviews with Catholic and papal experts.
Dr Kengor has focused much of his work on Ronald Reagan, faith and the presidency, conservative politics, the Cold War, Communism, and Catholicism, and he will bring his own vast knowledge and expertise, and exclusive interviews with Catholic and Papal experts to his biography of Pope Leo XIV. As the Editor of The American Spectator, executive director and chief academic fellow at the Institute for Faith & Freedom, professor of political science at Grove City College, and author of over twenty books, A Pope and a President, God and Ronald Reagan, and The Divine Plan, Dr Kengor’s POPE LEO THE FIRST AMERICAN PONTIFF will be the definitive biography of Robert Francis Prevost and his likely impact on the Catholic Church and place in the history of Christianity and the world.
256 pages, Hardcover
Published March 10, 2026
About the author
Paul Kengor
42 books151 followersPaul G. Kengor is an author and professor of political science at Grove City College and the senior director of the Institute for Faith and Freedom, a Grove City College think tank. He is a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Kengor has focused much of his work on Ronald Reagan, faith and the presidency, conservative politics, the Cold War, Communism, and Catholicism.
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May 16, 2026
3 stars only for the writing, not the content. I know Paul Kengor is a renowned biographer, but this book felt rushed and full of fluff — primarily because he was tasked with having a book out the moment Leo was named pope. Pretty repetitive, but he did a fair job of describing the state of the church before Leo was chosen. Though Kengor’s dislike for Francis was palpable and his writing did not try to hide his American political biases, my love for Pope Leo grew tenfold! You can’t love someone without knowing them, and I am so overjoyed at Providence selecting this highly intellectual, disciplined, experienced, and humble man. I even added his birthday to my calendar as a yearly reminder.
April 23, 2026
A profoundly disappointing read. With the subtitle “the Definitive Biography”, I was expecting something magnificent like George Weigel’s biography of St. Pope John Paul II. This book is sooooo biased. The author constantly criticizes Pope Francis. It would have more aptly been subtitle something about how terrible the author thinks Pope Francis was. The Pope Leo biographies by Mike Schmitz, Christopher White, and Matthew Bunson are better - more objective.
June 11, 2026
1/5 stars
I knew from basically the first page that I would disagree with the author on some things. That's fine. I expect nonfiction like this to carry some sort of ideological bias, and I don't always expect it to align with mine. However, this was biased to the point of harming the book's narrative. It felt more like a criticism of the late Pope Francis than a biography of Pope Leo. Kengor mentioned how he had been a Francis defender, but it did not seem like that at all--in fact, he seemed to disagree with the late pope on almost all of his actions or policies. He did mention some of the late pope's good deeds, but with great reluctance. The sections diving into Pope Leo's life could have been expanded, but I suppose there wasn't much to work with yet, given how early into his papacy this was published. If this had been a separate book entirely dedicated to criticizing Pope Francis, I would not have had the same issue. The problem is that this book claims to be a "definitive biography" of Pope Leo but spends most of its time going on about Pope Francis's flaws or mistakes, quite repetitively.
I knew from basically the first page that I would disagree with the author on some things. That's fine. I expect nonfiction like this to carry some sort of ideological bias, and I don't always expect it to align with mine. However, this was biased to the point of harming the book's narrative. It felt more like a criticism of the late Pope Francis than a biography of Pope Leo. Kengor mentioned how he had been a Francis defender, but it did not seem like that at all--in fact, he seemed to disagree with the late pope on almost all of his actions or policies. He did mention some of the late pope's good deeds, but with great reluctance. The sections diving into Pope Leo's life could have been expanded, but I suppose there wasn't much to work with yet, given how early into his papacy this was published. If this had been a separate book entirely dedicated to criticizing Pope Francis, I would not have had the same issue. The problem is that this book claims to be a "definitive biography" of Pope Leo but spends most of its time going on about Pope Francis's flaws or mistakes, quite repetitively.
June 22, 2026
While an entertaining read, this was almost a bit of a guilty pleasure to me, with how biased and dramatic the writing was at times.
*Recommendation/TL;DR paragraph at the end *
THE FRANCIS PROBLEM
As others have pointed out, this book is about 50% Francis critiques and 50% Leo biography. The author is almost condescendingly critical of Francis, to the point where I wondered (as a non-catholic who just read this for fun) how a man so clearly full of faith (even believing the bread during Eucharist actually turns into the body of Christ and spending a section shaming the 66% of American Catholics who don't) could say such critical things of Francis. Again, I know that Christianity teaches that man is fallible, but isn't the whole point of the Pope that he was chosen by God to lead the Church in a certain direction? It felt very arrogant for a man who talks about how we all need to be humble before God to so ruthlessly criticize the style of the man supposedly selected by God to preach His word. It was clear that he disagreed with Francis politically.
The sections on communism were laughable. As always, Catholicism can address the symptoms of capitalism (war, hunger, homelessness) but never capitalism itself. It was almost weird how much he talked about it, to the point where it was his MAIN critique of Francis, other than some pretty obscure stuff on Traditional Latin Mass. After reading the first chapter, I tried to explain to my mom why he hated Francis so much, and it was difficult because I kind of forgot his critiques. Upon rereading the chapter to sum up his arguments, it was a lot of simply naming of all the liberal Bishops and papal decrees from Francis he disliked, which I could tell were taken out of context, but the real meat of it is a singular statement on China. Francis said something along the lines of China did the best job of any country in achieving Jesus' dream of world peace and eliminating poverty and hunger and suffering etc. Kengor, who from my research is clearly a big Reaganite, is still stuck in the Cold War with his McCarthy-ist hatred of Communism. It was very biased and you could tell he wasn't seriously engaging with Pope Francis' argument, and instead rejecting it on its face because China is communist, to which I would also add China is communist in name only
OVERALL WRITING/STYLE
After reading other reviews, I agree with them that there was a lot of repetition, and when reading the end where he discusses writing the book in three months, it really contextualizes it all. It took a while to get through this one because it did feel repetitive at times. He would have a broad point and then there'd be a dozen examples to support it, but at times the examples would have other examples and it would get pretty tangential to the point where you're learning about some lady in the 1800s who refused Chemo to keep her baby (real story in this book) and you're like okay, I wanted to learn about Pope Leo.
He spends way too much time on Francis, and you can tell he needed to pump it out quickly so he took an (understandable) shortcut by diving into Francis because there's much more historical record to write about — the entirety of his thoughts on Leo's Papal actions are on just his first 40 days. So this book ended up being only 1/2 chapters of pure Leo, and a lot of Catholic political ranting, random historical examples, and a wishlist for what Paul would like his Pope to do to make him happy.
But I do think Kengor is an entertaining writer, even if this felt more like one long column on Catholic politics than a dedicated bibliography. And he did his due diligence with research, even if there simply isn't too much to research as of yet.
GUILTY PLEASURE?
I say guilty pleasure because Paul is just. So. Dramatic. In one of the ending passages he calls Francis the "most disruptful pope of modern times" or something along those lines.
Girl. Calm down. Recency bias much?
He also plays into the aura and regality of the pope, describing all the ceremonies in rich detail, and the Pope's meetings and actions, most of which were pretty ceremonial, as ultra-important.
Two good examples of the political drama I enjoyed was Pope Leo's meetings with JD Vance & Marco Rubio as well as his (seperate) phone calls with Zelensky and Putin. It was very entertaining to read about, and a big part of the appeal of this book to me was seeing how the leader of the Vatican truly speaks, from a man as well-connected as Kengor. He is able to paint the picture of the expectations around the meeting, and he always raises it to the highest degree. And the foreign policy of the Vatican is very very interesting to me.
The narrative is obvious with JD and Marco. Both Catholics, both likely to be the next Republican nominee, both heavily involved in foreign policy and warmongering, an act Pope Leo is inherently inclined to protest. Kengor embellishes this one well. Seeing their reactions to the election of, and their meeting with, the man formerly known as Robert Prevost was straight up juicy tea, bitches.
The chapter on the election of the pope? *Chefs kiss* also juicy as hell. Papal politics are peak. And he dropped a banger Roman proverb, that honestly described the entire process in one sentence:
"He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal."
The phone calls with Putin and Zelensky read as entertaining, but have aged poorly now that the conflict has continued on and has now lasted longer than WWI. So while I liked it, it was also admittedly a little hyperbolic. Kengor describes Leo's phone call with Putin a "breakthrough" in diplomacy. That's clearly proven not true. This is an example of his Western and Catholic bias. Putin is Orthodox, and, as mentioned later, rejected previous efforts to host peace talks at Catholic locations. He don't give a fuck what an American Catholic has to say about his war for Slavic Orthodox unity.
At one point I checked out a video of Leo's formal introduction as Pope, when Cardinal Tagle handed him the Fisherman's Ring, and honestly, Kengor did a great job evoking the vibe of the Vatican. I went to the Vatican as a child, and I remember the special feeling when viewing centuries of history in just one small enclave. The history is beautiful, and it's clear Kengor cares about it
POPE LEO = CHURCH SAVIOR?
The book ends with Kengor just making a bunch of guesses on Leo, but they are educated guesses based on the legacy of Francis and Leo XII, which i actually thought was cool analysis. The ones on AI and slavery have already aged well. This book is ultimately a useful piece of the historical record that I will hold in the back of my mind for the entire Leo papacy.
*TLDR* If I were simply recommending this to someone, I would say it requires a lot of asterisks. He is biased, and it is not entirely focused on Leo. However, it provides a unique glimpse into the opinion of Kengor, a well-connected, well-researched and well-written Catholic reporter with an obvious conservative bias. He is similar to many other traditionalist catholics, and I have no doubt this book is making the rounds in those circles. The metrics he uses to judge Pope Leo will be used by others, so it's helpful to be aware of their perspective, and see how Leo caters to them. The info on his upbringing and path to the papacy are helpful to know about one of the world's most powerful figures. While pretty much entirely ceremonial, this pope has a unique opportunity never seen before to impact American politics. If you want to learn more, this isn't a bad place to start. So early into his papacy, it's impossible for a truly great biography, but this is a great piece of journalism with a lot of editorializing. Mr. Kengor, I may not read another one of your books, but I am glad I read this one.
I give it 3/5 because he makes a lot of bad points and was quite biased, hypercritical and ranty at times, but he still did a satisfactory job with the material given to him. I still learned quite a lot from this, which I think is always the goal of a good nonfiction book.
*Recommendation/TL;DR paragraph at the end *
THE FRANCIS PROBLEM
As others have pointed out, this book is about 50% Francis critiques and 50% Leo biography. The author is almost condescendingly critical of Francis, to the point where I wondered (as a non-catholic who just read this for fun) how a man so clearly full of faith (even believing the bread during Eucharist actually turns into the body of Christ and spending a section shaming the 66% of American Catholics who don't) could say such critical things of Francis. Again, I know that Christianity teaches that man is fallible, but isn't the whole point of the Pope that he was chosen by God to lead the Church in a certain direction? It felt very arrogant for a man who talks about how we all need to be humble before God to so ruthlessly criticize the style of the man supposedly selected by God to preach His word. It was clear that he disagreed with Francis politically.
The sections on communism were laughable. As always, Catholicism can address the symptoms of capitalism (war, hunger, homelessness) but never capitalism itself. It was almost weird how much he talked about it, to the point where it was his MAIN critique of Francis, other than some pretty obscure stuff on Traditional Latin Mass. After reading the first chapter, I tried to explain to my mom why he hated Francis so much, and it was difficult because I kind of forgot his critiques. Upon rereading the chapter to sum up his arguments, it was a lot of simply naming of all the liberal Bishops and papal decrees from Francis he disliked, which I could tell were taken out of context, but the real meat of it is a singular statement on China. Francis said something along the lines of China did the best job of any country in achieving Jesus' dream of world peace and eliminating poverty and hunger and suffering etc. Kengor, who from my research is clearly a big Reaganite, is still stuck in the Cold War with his McCarthy-ist hatred of Communism. It was very biased and you could tell he wasn't seriously engaging with Pope Francis' argument, and instead rejecting it on its face because China is communist, to which I would also add China is communist in name only
OVERALL WRITING/STYLE
After reading other reviews, I agree with them that there was a lot of repetition, and when reading the end where he discusses writing the book in three months, it really contextualizes it all. It took a while to get through this one because it did feel repetitive at times. He would have a broad point and then there'd be a dozen examples to support it, but at times the examples would have other examples and it would get pretty tangential to the point where you're learning about some lady in the 1800s who refused Chemo to keep her baby (real story in this book) and you're like okay, I wanted to learn about Pope Leo.
He spends way too much time on Francis, and you can tell he needed to pump it out quickly so he took an (understandable) shortcut by diving into Francis because there's much more historical record to write about — the entirety of his thoughts on Leo's Papal actions are on just his first 40 days. So this book ended up being only 1/2 chapters of pure Leo, and a lot of Catholic political ranting, random historical examples, and a wishlist for what Paul would like his Pope to do to make him happy.
But I do think Kengor is an entertaining writer, even if this felt more like one long column on Catholic politics than a dedicated bibliography. And he did his due diligence with research, even if there simply isn't too much to research as of yet.
GUILTY PLEASURE?
I say guilty pleasure because Paul is just. So. Dramatic. In one of the ending passages he calls Francis the "most disruptful pope of modern times" or something along those lines.
Girl. Calm down. Recency bias much?
He also plays into the aura and regality of the pope, describing all the ceremonies in rich detail, and the Pope's meetings and actions, most of which were pretty ceremonial, as ultra-important.
Two good examples of the political drama I enjoyed was Pope Leo's meetings with JD Vance & Marco Rubio as well as his (seperate) phone calls with Zelensky and Putin. It was very entertaining to read about, and a big part of the appeal of this book to me was seeing how the leader of the Vatican truly speaks, from a man as well-connected as Kengor. He is able to paint the picture of the expectations around the meeting, and he always raises it to the highest degree. And the foreign policy of the Vatican is very very interesting to me.
The narrative is obvious with JD and Marco. Both Catholics, both likely to be the next Republican nominee, both heavily involved in foreign policy and warmongering, an act Pope Leo is inherently inclined to protest. Kengor embellishes this one well. Seeing their reactions to the election of, and their meeting with, the man formerly known as Robert Prevost was straight up juicy tea, bitches.
The chapter on the election of the pope? *Chefs kiss* also juicy as hell. Papal politics are peak. And he dropped a banger Roman proverb, that honestly described the entire process in one sentence:
"He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal."
The phone calls with Putin and Zelensky read as entertaining, but have aged poorly now that the conflict has continued on and has now lasted longer than WWI. So while I liked it, it was also admittedly a little hyperbolic. Kengor describes Leo's phone call with Putin a "breakthrough" in diplomacy. That's clearly proven not true. This is an example of his Western and Catholic bias. Putin is Orthodox, and, as mentioned later, rejected previous efforts to host peace talks at Catholic locations. He don't give a fuck what an American Catholic has to say about his war for Slavic Orthodox unity.
At one point I checked out a video of Leo's formal introduction as Pope, when Cardinal Tagle handed him the Fisherman's Ring, and honestly, Kengor did a great job evoking the vibe of the Vatican. I went to the Vatican as a child, and I remember the special feeling when viewing centuries of history in just one small enclave. The history is beautiful, and it's clear Kengor cares about it
POPE LEO = CHURCH SAVIOR?
The book ends with Kengor just making a bunch of guesses on Leo, but they are educated guesses based on the legacy of Francis and Leo XII, which i actually thought was cool analysis. The ones on AI and slavery have already aged well. This book is ultimately a useful piece of the historical record that I will hold in the back of my mind for the entire Leo papacy.
*TLDR* If I were simply recommending this to someone, I would say it requires a lot of asterisks. He is biased, and it is not entirely focused on Leo. However, it provides a unique glimpse into the opinion of Kengor, a well-connected, well-researched and well-written Catholic reporter with an obvious conservative bias. He is similar to many other traditionalist catholics, and I have no doubt this book is making the rounds in those circles. The metrics he uses to judge Pope Leo will be used by others, so it's helpful to be aware of their perspective, and see how Leo caters to them. The info on his upbringing and path to the papacy are helpful to know about one of the world's most powerful figures. While pretty much entirely ceremonial, this pope has a unique opportunity never seen before to impact American politics. If you want to learn more, this isn't a bad place to start. So early into his papacy, it's impossible for a truly great biography, but this is a great piece of journalism with a lot of editorializing. Mr. Kengor, I may not read another one of your books, but I am glad I read this one.
I give it 3/5 because he makes a lot of bad points and was quite biased, hypercritical and ranty at times, but he still did a satisfactory job with the material given to him. I still learned quite a lot from this, which I think is always the goal of a good nonfiction book.
July 23, 2026
I am not one to write reviews, but I felt the need for this book. First the title is a bit misleading. This book is largely the author's complaints about Pope Francis. He weaves all his issues with Pope Francis with speculation about Pope Leo XIV and his motives to undo what Pope Francis had done.
It is very obvious the political leanings of the author. He couches it by saying traditionalist Catholic views, but you can guess what he is using the euphemism for. This largely is a distraction from the book. I honestly don't care about the author's opinion on things. I thought this book was a biography about Pope Leo XIV.
This book does have some redeeming qualities though. If you wade through a lot of the political leanings, you are able to find some biographical information about Pope Leo XIV. But as the author says in his thank you pages, he declined interviews from a variety of news media when Robert Prevost was elevated to Pope because he didn't know anything about him. It seems he learned very little about him in writing this book. There are also some interesting bits about the Conclave and things surrounding it. So that is why I gave it 3 stars (really 2.5 but that isn't an option).
What is interesting about this book is it is already a bit dated. The author says he was contracted to write the book the day after Pope Francis died, before anyone even knew who the new Pope would be. It is why I think a lot of the book is grievances toward Pope Francis. He also said the publisher wanted it out in 1-3 months from then. So it explains a lot of the speculation the author makes. I am a Catholic, but not a practicing one. So I don't follow the minutae of day to day news originating from the Vatican. Thus, I cannot say for sure all of the things that the author speculated on were wrong.
But he very emphatically predicts Pope Leo XIV's relationship with the current US administration. Boy did he get that wrong. This speculation seems to permeate a lot of what the author says he thinks Pope Leo XIV will do as Pope with internal Church issues. It seems at odds with how Pope Leo XIV has criticized the current American Administration. Thus, the colouring of other Church issues with the same brush says to me it is unlikely to happen.
I also get the sense that the author sides a bit more with sedevacantists and is somewhat anti-Vatican II in his beliefs. He spends an inordinate amount of time talking about and making vague references to the Traditional Latin Mass. It struck me that the author expects Pope Leo XIV to reverse Vatican II and go back to the TLM as the Mass for all Catholics.
If you are looking for an opinion piece on the state of the Catholic Church at the time of Pope Francis' death and a bit of colour about Pope Leo XIV, this book is for you. If you are salivating over it claiming to be the definitive biography of Pope Leo XIV as I was, you will be very disappointed.
The one thing I am glad the author included was a picture of Pope Leo XIV wearing his gifted ChiSox hat. His immense fandom of the ChiSox makes him more down to Earth for me. Of course the author barely mentions it in the book. I guess a Pope having an interest that is not ecclesiastical in nature does not fit the author's narrative. But it was nice to see that picture all the same.
At the end of the day, I do not recommend this book to anyone really, unless you are a big fan of the author. I realized I was not enjoying it about 200 pages in. But I hate leaving a book partially read, so I finished it. By now there must be an actual biography of Pope Leo XIV out there. So I would suggest seeking that out, if you, like me, wanted to read a biography of Robert Prevost.
It is very obvious the political leanings of the author. He couches it by saying traditionalist Catholic views, but you can guess what he is using the euphemism for. This largely is a distraction from the book. I honestly don't care about the author's opinion on things. I thought this book was a biography about Pope Leo XIV.
This book does have some redeeming qualities though. If you wade through a lot of the political leanings, you are able to find some biographical information about Pope Leo XIV. But as the author says in his thank you pages, he declined interviews from a variety of news media when Robert Prevost was elevated to Pope because he didn't know anything about him. It seems he learned very little about him in writing this book. There are also some interesting bits about the Conclave and things surrounding it. So that is why I gave it 3 stars (really 2.5 but that isn't an option).
What is interesting about this book is it is already a bit dated. The author says he was contracted to write the book the day after Pope Francis died, before anyone even knew who the new Pope would be. It is why I think a lot of the book is grievances toward Pope Francis. He also said the publisher wanted it out in 1-3 months from then. So it explains a lot of the speculation the author makes. I am a Catholic, but not a practicing one. So I don't follow the minutae of day to day news originating from the Vatican. Thus, I cannot say for sure all of the things that the author speculated on were wrong.
But he very emphatically predicts Pope Leo XIV's relationship with the current US administration. Boy did he get that wrong. This speculation seems to permeate a lot of what the author says he thinks Pope Leo XIV will do as Pope with internal Church issues. It seems at odds with how Pope Leo XIV has criticized the current American Administration. Thus, the colouring of other Church issues with the same brush says to me it is unlikely to happen.
I also get the sense that the author sides a bit more with sedevacantists and is somewhat anti-Vatican II in his beliefs. He spends an inordinate amount of time talking about and making vague references to the Traditional Latin Mass. It struck me that the author expects Pope Leo XIV to reverse Vatican II and go back to the TLM as the Mass for all Catholics.
If you are looking for an opinion piece on the state of the Catholic Church at the time of Pope Francis' death and a bit of colour about Pope Leo XIV, this book is for you. If you are salivating over it claiming to be the definitive biography of Pope Leo XIV as I was, you will be very disappointed.
The one thing I am glad the author included was a picture of Pope Leo XIV wearing his gifted ChiSox hat. His immense fandom of the ChiSox makes him more down to Earth for me. Of course the author barely mentions it in the book. I guess a Pope having an interest that is not ecclesiastical in nature does not fit the author's narrative. But it was nice to see that picture all the same.
At the end of the day, I do not recommend this book to anyone really, unless you are a big fan of the author. I realized I was not enjoying it about 200 pages in. But I hate leaving a book partially read, so I finished it. By now there must be an actual biography of Pope Leo XIV out there. So I would suggest seeking that out, if you, like me, wanted to read a biography of Robert Prevost.
April 26, 2026
Habamus Papam! The first American Pope in history. A man for our time whose first words from the Loggia to the crowd gathered, PEACE. In our war weary world we need a calm steady voice. We have wondered down the path of hate and destruction. We are as lost sheep who desperately need a shepherd; one who hears the voice of The Good Shepherd.
Will his duties be easy? No but with Jesus assurance: This is my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, Pope Leo XVI faces the challenges of this world and its wickedness with all the Hosts of Heaven, angels and saints, and the prayers of his flock. Invoking the St. Michael Prayer against evil given to Pope Leo the XIII, we journey on.
Will his duties be easy? No but with Jesus assurance: This is my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, Pope Leo XVI faces the challenges of this world and its wickedness with all the Hosts of Heaven, angels and saints, and the prayers of his flock. Invoking the St. Michael Prayer against evil given to Pope Leo the XIII, we journey on.
June 2, 2026
Enjoyable and informative. I took some exception to the political predictions which I felt were far fetched at the time but now post-AI Trump-Jesus are definitely out of touch... but other than that I appreciated the thorough research and loved learning more about our new pope's life.
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April 1, 2026Engaging and enlightening
This book not only gave me a better look at Pope Leo it also gave me a better look at the Popes before him. Excellent book, I couldn't put it down.
This book not only gave me a better look at Pope Leo it also gave me a better look at the Popes before him. Excellent book, I couldn't put it down.
April 1, 2026
This book is an excellent biographical portrait of Pope Leo XIV.
May 29, 2026
I didn't realize the "mess" in our Church!
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