• HISTORIC ELECTION: CARDINAL PREVOST ELECTED AS FIRST AMERICAN POPE, TAKES NAME LEO XIV

    HISTORIC ELECTION: CARDINAL PREVOST ELECTED AS FIRST AMERICAN POPE, TAKES NAME LEO XIV

    VATICAN CITY, May 8 – In a stunning conclave decision that reshapes centuries of Catholic tradition, the College of Cardinals today elected Cardinal Robert Prevost, a soft-spoken missionary from Chicago, as the first American pope in the Church’s 2,000-year history. Taking the name Leo XIV, the 69-year-old former bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, emerged as a compromise candidate after five…


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