This is a 17th-century painting of St Augustine by artist Philippe de Champaigne. Photo: OSV News /Public Domain, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In his first address to the Church and the world on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after his election in May 2025, Pope Leo XIV identified himself as “the son of St Augustine”. With these words, the new Pope was not just drawing our attention to him being the first Augustinian Pope in history,…
