Pope Leo XIV greets people at the conclusion of his inauguration Mass in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 18, 2025. Photo: CNS/Lola Gomez. Last week, I managed to get my hands on a copy of a PhD thesis from 1987 entitled ‘The office and authority of the local prior in the order of Saint Augustine’ by one Robert Prevost, then a doctoral student only a few years older than myself. For years it had lain totally untouched in…
