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Live Updates: Leo XIV’s Service to Poor Propelled Him to Papacy, Cardinals Say
Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to ...
‘DA POPE!’ Leo XIV’s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...
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 ...
'Exciting day to be a Chicago Catholic' - Chicagoans react to Pope Leo XIV
Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...
Pope Leo XIV’s friends say he’ll continue Francis’ legacy in his own image
How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...
King Charles Sends Pope Leo XIV a Private Message of Congratulations
Last month, the monarch and Queen Camilla met with the late Pope Francis while visiting Rome. On Friday, the royal couple ...
Leo XIV’s service to poor propelled him to papacy, cardinals say
Some of the cardinals who elected him said his life of service to the poor in Peru and to the church at the Vatican mattered ...