(16 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Genazzano, Italy – 15 May 2025
1. Wide of interior of the church
2. Close of Pope Leo XIV portrait on a table inside the church
3. Various of an Augustinian friar celebrating mass
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Reverend Alberto Giovannetti, Augustinian Friar of the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel:
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“With Father Robert, then with the Very Rev. Prior General, these are names we have had to change as time passed, Father Bob… we had daily experiences so then the most difficult part was to deal with a common person that all of a sudden might have changed but we realise the person hasn’t changed at all, it’s still him,”
5. Close of Pope Leo’s photo, Rev. Giovannetti in the foreground
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 14 May 2025
6. Wide of St. Augustine
7. Pan down of fresco
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Reverend Pasquale Cormio, Rector of Rome’s Basilica of St. Augustine in Camp Martius:
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“We would like to think that maybe our pontiff would introduce some elements in his teachings that are coming from the works of Augustine, and also from that spirituality that he embodied in his life as an Augustinian religious man.”
9. Various of stained glass window with the image of St. Augustine
STORYLINE:
A new photo of Leo XIV stands by frescoes representing past papal visits to a Virgin Mary icon in the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel, commemorating where he prayed two days after being elected pope.
But the new pontiff is still “Father Bob” to the handful of Augustinian friars who serve in the basilica in a hilltop medieval village — and the tight-knit community of Augustinians worldwide.
They knew Leo when he was their global leader, seminary teacher or simply fellow brother in black habits with thick belts and large hooded capes.
“With Father Robert, then Very Reverend Prior General, we have had to change the names, but Father Bob … we realise the person hasn’t changed at all, it’s still him,” said the Reverend Alberto Giovannetti, 78.
He was born in Genazzano in the wooded hills outside Rome and entered the seminary at age 11.
He remembers a day in 2001 when he was struggling with the responsibility of a new position, and then-Prior General Prevost comforted him.
“He gave me courage, ‘Stay calm, the less adequate you feel, the more you’re fit for it,’ that was the meaning,” Giovannetti said. “I think it’s what’s guiding him now as well, that real humbleness that doesn’t make you feel weak, but rather makes you feel not alone.”
It’s a style of brotherly leadership that was crucial to St. Augustine, who inspired the order that has found itself in an unusual spotlight ever since Leo’s first public blessing from St. Peter’s Basilica.
“He resolutely affirmed, ‘I’m a son of Augustine, I’m Augustinian,’ and this filled us all with pride. We’re feeling like the pope’s friars,” said the Rev. Pasquale Cormio, rector of Rome’s Basilica of St. Augustine.
Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, was a Jesuit who took the name of the founder of the Franciscans.
The Jesuit order is widely known for its scholarly star power, while the Franciscans appeal to many because of the order’s down-to-earth charity.
The Augustinian order is a bit of a paradox — it remains as unassuming as when it was first organised in the mid-13th century as a union of mendicant orders, yet traces its origins to one of the most influential thinkers in Christian and Western culture.
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