Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, described the more methodical approach that has emerged from the first month of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV.

When Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the crowd for the first time after his May 8 election, liturgical fashion aficionados around the globe took note: Gone was the simple white cassock and silver cross favored by Pope Francis.

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