Pope Leo XIV

 

These statements and documents by Pope Leo XIV (2025 - ) relevant to Jewish-Christian relations are listed chronologically. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope on May 8, 2025 taking the papal name Leo XIV after Pope Leo XIII, who developed modern Catholic social teaching in the famous encyclical (1891). A United States citizen by birth, he is the first pope to have been born in North America, the first to hold Peruvian citizenship (naturalized in 2015), the second pope from the Americas (after his predecessor Francis), and the first from the Order of Saint Augustine. On the day of his election, he sent a personal message to several Jewish leaders that said, "Trusting in the assistance of the Almighty, I pledge to continue and strengthen the Church's dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council's declaration Nostra Aetate.