Meet New Pope, Leo XIV
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"The Pope is from Chicago. This is one of the biggest moments in the modern history of our city," said Mayor Brandon Johnson in a statement.
Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual identity has put them at ease.
New Orleans' 7th Ward neighborhood has long been recognized as a cultural stronghold for people of African, French, Spanish and Native American descent.
The Vatican’s choice of the first American pope is drawing reaction across New Mexico’s widespread Catholic community. With the words “peace be with you,” the new pope, Robert Francis Prevost, greeted the world and thousands of attendees at Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City.
"I think people will be very impressed with him," Villanova president Peter Donohue said of the new pope, who graduated from the university in 1977.