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Thursday’s live updates have ended. Follow live updates from Friday, May 9, 2025. Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV. The Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office . . .
By CP StaffThursday, May 08, 2025Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, […]
Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV.Leo celebrates his […]
Pope Leo XIV live updates: U.S.-born pontiff, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, leads first Mass  NBC News Source link
Pope Leo XIV ascended to the papacy on Thursday with little public record on L.G.B.T.Q. issues, a signature concern of his predecessor, Pope Francis, as well as a source of deep conflict between liberal and conservative Catholics. Nevertheless, proponents of greater inclusion for gay and transgender people in the church said they were cautiously optimistic, […]
DONALD Trump has congratulated American Robert Prevost who has been elected as the new Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, 69, is the first ever American to helm the Catholic Church and was elected after just one day of voting. 3 Robert Prevost will be Pope Leo XIVCredit: Reuters 3 White smoke billows from the chimney of […]
Voting in the conclave is a highly choreographed and highly scrutinized process that involves non-electing cardinals — usually churchmen over the age of 80 who are barred from voting — taking on different roles. Nine ballot-officials chosen by the junior cardinal-deacon help keep the ballot process fair and running smoothly. They include three scrutineers, who […]
Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular. But we haven’t had a Pope Leo in more than a century.
VATICAN CITY — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first […]
It’s Robert Francis Prevost! We have an American pope! New Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, stands for a portrait at the end of the consistory where Pope Francis elevated 21 new cardinals in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in 2023. Photograph: Riccardo De Luca/AP Here’s our profile of Prevost […]