We have a Pope!
White smoke emerged from the chimney yesterday evening, and an hour later came the announcement that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost had been chosen by his brother Cardinals to be the 267th Pope, taking the name "Leo XIV." He was born in 1955 in Chicago, making him the first Pope from the United States of America. But he also spent many years in Latin America as a bishop in Peru, and became a naturalized Peruvian citizen. The people of Peru have long regarded him as "one of their own."
Now he belongs to the whole world.
Dear Lord, bless and sustain our new Pope Leo XIV in his ministry as Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, Servant of the Servants of God.
