‘Peace Be With You’: Pope Leo XIV Steps Onto the World Stage

“Peace be with all of you!” Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the 100,000-strong crowd gathered in St. Peter’s square, he used the world’s most famous pulpit to promote a vision that, of late, has been more of a wish than reality. “To all people, wherever they are, to all the people of the earth, may peace be with you,” he continued, in