I don’t have live access to current news right now, but the latest widely reported information indicates Pope Leo XIV was elected in May 2025 and is the first American pope, born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, with dual U.S. and Peruvian citizenship. He began his papacy in 2025 and has UK-related coverage and ongoing international attention. If you’d like, I can summarize the most recent headlines and link you to up-to-date sources.[2][3][5]
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Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a missionary in Peru.
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abcnews.go.comPope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the church’s 2,000-year history. The election of cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pontiff overcame the traditional prohibition against a pope from the United States. On Friday, wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” behind it. It was in the same frescoed chapel that the...
kstp.comLeo XIV is the pope, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected pope on May 8, 2025, succeeding Pope Francis (2013–25). An Augustinian priest with extensive missionary service in Peru, Leo XIV was the first American to become pope.
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