Breda O'Brien
Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on October 17, 2026, following his lung surgery and cancer diagnosis. Photo: OSV News / Yara Nardi, Reuters. The Pope and I have a shared favourite spiritual teacher. Sadly, the resemblance ends there, because Pope Leo lives by the teachings. While I would love to, I just don’t. The spiritual teacher is Bro. Lawrence, a seventeenth-century Carmelite lay brother. He served as a foot soldier in the Thirty Years’ War. An injury left…
