The volume is unique in offering a comprehensive view of the papal office itself, and of the circumstances of the Vatican and of the Church into the global leadership of which Leo XIV has come.
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Only a few months after Augustinian Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected to the papacy, taking Leo XIV as his name, Crux’s then-senior editor for news and affairs, Christopher R. Altieri, released Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform (224pp. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025).
I should say from the outset that I was pleased to see myself quoted and cited in the book, but I was deeply moved to discover that the book written by my friend, whom I have known for decades (even before our years together at Vatican Radio), is dedicated to me.
