The Catholic Church leader is also linked to Angelina Jolie and Hillary Clinton, according to The New York Times.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new president for the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, a bioethics think tank that Catholic conservatives criticized under Pope Francis for departing from official church teaching on issues such as contraception and euthanasia.

Pope Leo XIV has made waves with some of his fashion choices, returning to much of the traditional pomp of popes past