History was made on Thursday, 8 May 2025, when cardinals gathered in Rome for the conclave elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the first ever pope from the United States, with his papal name declared as Leo XIV. In brief remarks after stepping out onto the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica late on Thursday afternoon,
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