Radio Interview: Pope Leo XIV's biographer shares insights on the Augustinian who became pope

Radio Interview: Pope Leo XIV's biographer shares insights on the Augustinian who became pope

When white smoke rose over the Sistine Chapel last year, Elise Ann Allen was one of the few journalists who already knew the man stepping onto the balcony. The Rome-based correspondent for Crux had first met Cardinal Robert Prevost in Peru years earlier while covering the Church’s response to the abuse crisis – an encounter that eventually led to a dinner with the future pope and, after his election, the first in-depth interview with Pope Leo XI…