Cardinal Robert Francis Prevos has been officially confirmed as the Catholic Church’s new Pope, marking a monumental moment in the denomination’s history as its first ever American head of the church.
The Chicago-born Prevos’s selection was confirmed and revealed on Thursday in Rome, Italy, following the papal conclave, among the cardinals who were gathered and barred from having any contact with the outside world as they selected the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
The American, who will now go by the chosen title Pope Leo XIV, succeeds the late Pope Francis III following his recent passing.
