The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics now have a new pope. Robert Prevost, who was born in Chicago and spent two decades of service to the church in Peru will now be known as Pope Leo XIV. We go to the Vatican to hear what it was like in St. Peter’s Square when the new pope blessed the faithful for the first time. And we hear from someone who knows the pope from his time in Chicago.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost appears at the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost appears at the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.
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