Full in the panting heart of Rome: Leo XIV ascends to the Throne of the Fisherman

Habemus papam. The Church has a new pope: Leo XIV. When the protodeacon of the College of Cardinals, Dominique Mamberti, announced “Cardinalem Prevost” there was a brief silence in St Peter’s Square as people attempted to register who he was; but the same was true of Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 2013. Robert Francis Prevost, the