At the 6-months mark, Pope Leo finds his footing and starts charting his own path and style
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FILE - Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV blesses a child at the end of a Mass for the Jubilee of Migrants and Missionaries in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV, left, arrives at the Marina of Ostia, near Rome, for a visit to the "Med 25 - Bel Espoir" Peace Training Ship, Oct. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV presides over a Rosary vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican, Oct. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV, center, is flanked by Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the St. Damasus Courtyard at the Vatican after a state visit and a pray with him in the Sistine Chapel, Oct. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File )FILE - Pope Leo XIV attends an inter-religious meeting to pray for peace inside the Colosseum in Rome, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV greets faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE- Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)FILE - Newly elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, right, receives his biretta from Pope Francis as he is elevated in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV on his popemobile tours St. Peter's Square at the Vatican prior to the inaugural Mass of his pontificate, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV blesses the faithful gathered in the square in front of the Apostolic Palace for the noon Angelus prayer in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE - People wave a flag prior to the arrival of Pope Leo XIV for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV is greeted by faithful as he arrives at the St. Thomas of Villanova Church to celebrate a mass, in Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, Aug.15, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV holds prayer vigil with young people participating in the Youths Jubilee at the Tor Vergata field in Rome, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)FILE - Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
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FILE - Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)