The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics now have a brand new pope. Robert Prevost, who was born in Chicago and spent 20 years of service to the church in Peru will now be often called Pope Leo XIV. We go to the Vatican to listen to what it was like in St. Peter’s Sq. when the brand new pope blessed the trustworthy for the primary time. And we hear from somebody who is aware of the pope from his time in Chicago.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost seems on the predominant central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the primary time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on Could 8, 2025.
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost seems on the predominant central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the primary time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on Could 8, 2025.
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