Augustinians reminisce on now-Pope Leo XIV visiting Los Feliz parish and more
When the man he had known and respected for 20 years was declared the new pope, Father Barnaby Johns, OSA, excitedly leapt into the air.
He could hardly believe the first American — and the first Augustinian from the Order of St. Augustine (OSA) — was now leading the Catholic Church.
“I’m just so overwhelmed,” said Johns, Prior Provincial of the St. Augustine Province in California. “I’m sort of tingling. I cannot say enough good things about [Pope Leo XIV]. It’s wonderful for the world, wonderful for the Church, and wonderful for the Augustinian order.”