When Vogue Notices The Pope

When truth is resisted and goodness mistrusted, beauty still has the power to disarm.

In a year otherwise dominated by celebrities dressed to shock, provoke, or dissolve the human form into irony, a curious headline briefly cut through the noise: Pope Leo XIV had been named among Vogue’s best dressed of 2025.

For some, it was treated as a novelty. For others, a meme. But beneath the amusement lies something more revealing, not about the Pope, but about us.