5/9/25 Catholic Cardinals Choose Pope from the U.S.
9 May 2025 News
The Conclave of Cardinals yesterday for the first time in history chose a pope from the United States of America. Sixty-nine-year-old Robert Prevost is a Chicago native and Peruvian cardinal. He succeeds Pope Francis as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. He was appointed as Pope Leo XIV and yesterday delivered his first address to the faithful on the ledge of St. Peter’s Basilica balcony as the world watched on. Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of the Milwaukee Archdiocese issued a statement saying, “We rejoice with the Universal Church for what God has done in giving us a new successor to St. Peter. The wonderful qualities that already have been seen in the life and ministry of our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, shown by his vision to leave his homeland and to go on mission in service to people of another land, renew in us our own call to be missionaries of the Gospel.” In an online article for the Catholic Herald, Marquette University Associate Professor Kate Ward says she is delighted by the selection of Cardinal Prevost, as well as his choice of name. She says that his association with Pope Leo XIII is a sign of his commitment to social justice and Catholic social teachings and that he is dedicated to fighting injustice, poverty and disunity. (Vatican News photo).
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