Pope Leo is showing his Augustinian roots when speaking politics

Pope Leo is showing his Augustinian roots when speaking politics

Pope Leo XIV described himself as “a son of St. Augustine” when he greeted the faithful from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time on May 8, and he has already invoked St. Augustine too many times to count. In an address to elected officials and civil servants from the French diocese of Creteil on August 28 – the feast of St. Augustine – Leo did not mention the great early 5th century bishop of Hippo in Roman North Africa (and Do…