Veronica Roberts Ogle is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought and the Augustinian Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Humanities Department at Villanova University. She is the author of Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine?s City of God (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
An Augustinian pope can remind us that we are both on pilgrimage to the truly just city, and called upon to be a healing presence in the world. In so doing, he can call us out of the sterile individualism that so throttles us.
Date posted: 2025-07-07