Pope Leo XIV

An extraordinary achievement … Elise Ann Allen has given us a masterful and amazingly intimate portrait of our new pope, the result of exhaustive research and dozens of field interviews, including one with the pope himself. * AUSTEN IVEREIGH, biographer of Pope Francis *The most vivid portrait yet of the pope. * CHRISTOPHER HALE, co-founder of Millennial and former senior fellow of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good *Allen, with the necessary detachment of an outside observer, manages to discern the glimmers of hope we so often fail to see, sculpting the silhouette of a pontiff convinced of the mission of a Church committed to healing. Leo XIV knows that darkness endures but also acknowledges the stubbornness of light. * GONZALO BANDA, University College London Institute of the Americas *

Elise Ann Allen (Author)

Elise Ann Allen is a correspondent in Rome for the specialised media outlet Crux. Before joining Crux, Elise worked with Catholic News Agency, first as a multi-media and content management assistant in Denver. She holds a degree in Philosophy and Communications from the University of Northern Colorado.

Stephen Di Trolio (Translator)

Stephen Di Trolio is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics at Princeton Theological Seminary, specialising in ‘Religion in the Americas.’ He is the recipient of the Julian Gwyn Essay Prize, the Louisville Doctoral Fellowship and is the Jackson Scholar for Latin American Studies among other awards. As a native Spanish speaker, he is an active translator of various books, essays and chapters in edited volumes. In 2023, he translated Pope Francis’s book, I Am Asking in the Name of God.

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