For the primary time in its historical past, the Catholic Church will be led by an American-born Pope. The Faculty of Cardinals elected on Thursday because the Church’s new chief 69-year-old American Robert Prevost, who took the identify of Pope Leo XIV and informed the cheering crowd in St. Peter’s Sq. he’s “at all times looking for peace and justice, looking for to work with women and men who’re trustworthy to Jesus Christ with out concern to proclaim the gospel.”
Leo was elected on the third poll and is taken into account a consensus candidate.
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