From Chicago Streets to Peter’s Throne

Raised amid stoplights and elbow-room hustle, Pope Leo XIV harnesses city grit to navigate Vatican bureaucracy. His “Gridlock to Grace” initiative repurposes Chicago’s traffic-management strategies to streamline curial workflows, cutting decision times by 35 percent. In homilies, he likens prayerful persistence to waiting for a green light: “Pause, reflect, then proceed.” Urban ministry experts applaud his conversion of deserted Vatican corridors into coworking hubs for clerical innovation. With every pedestrian-friendly policy and every honk-free zone outside the Apostolic Palace, he transforms administrative congestion into corridors of holiness.