What happens when an American dramatically assumes absolute power over a country with intercontinental reach? Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost, better known as Pope Leo XIV, has held autocratic sway over Vatican City since May 2025. His mild-mannered pastoral persona — front and center in the collegial gathering of cardinals to discuss theology and ministry in the Vatican last week — obscures the fact that papal governance mirrors the monarchies of Brunei, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Eswatini (for
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Pope Leo Has Been Busy Cleaning House in Rome
