Pope Leo XIV has confirmed his favourite football team is Roma after engaging with a fan. The first US leader of the global Catholic Church responded to a Giallorossi supporter by repeating the popular phrase in the capital “Forza Roma!”

Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.”

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The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

It’s a story you might say could happen “only in America,” but this one is unfolding in Rome: Bob from the south side of Chicago is how His Holiness, the infallible supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and leader of some one billion Catholics worldwide.

Pope Leo XIV came under scrutiny after a 2012 video showing his conservative remarks about homosexuality went viral.

The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that taxes citizens living abroad. Thus, thanks to his American passport, the 69-year-old Chicago-born pope, known until last week as Robert Prevost, will likely need to file a tax return to the U.S. government just like any other citizen, experts told Fortune.

Abuse watchdog groups have expressed concern, but Leo has been lauded by other survivors for his handling of abuse.