HISTORIC MOMENT: AMERICA’S FIRST POPE! For the first time in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, an American has ascended to the papacy. Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been elected the Supreme Pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. This groundbreaking moment marks a new chapter not only for Church–but for the world. Full details below

He’s not a seasoned Vatican insider. He didn’t rise through aristocratic ranks. But on Thursday, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — a reserved, bilingual American from the working-class town of Dolton, Illinois — stood before the world on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the newly chosen Pope Leo XIV. “The bishop isn’t meant to…

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