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World Leaders React as American Robert Francis Prevost Becomes Pope Leo XIV
P olitical figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election on Thursday, May 8, as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Hailing from Chicago and a dual U.S.-Peru national, Prevost is the first North American Pope and second from the Americas, after his late predecessor Francis.
Who is Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo XIV?
Robert Francis Prevost, 69, will be the 267th occupant of the throne of St Peter and he will be known as Leo XIV. He is the first American to fill the role of pope, although he is considered as much a cardinal from Latin America because of the many years he spent as a missionary in Peru.
How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...
How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.
Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy, has voted in three Republican primary elections since 2012, state ...
Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused ...
Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.
Pope Leo XIV held the first mass of his papacy Friday morning in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected ...
Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams was among the residents of the Windy City who reveled in Robert Prevost's election ...
Pope Leo XIV on Friday celebrated mass in the Sistine Chapel as Italian media saluted the first American pope and called ...
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