Leo XIV Begins New Popeship

18-05-2025

This morning in St. Peter's yard, Robert Francis Prevost was acknowledged as the new head of the Catholic Church. Thousands of folks showed up for the outdoor church meeting overseen by the new pope. Prevost is the first-ever pope to be from the United States.

Prevost was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He went to Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he learned rimecraft as well as Hebrew and Latin. At the same time as his higher learning, he also worked as a graveyard groundskeeper for a nearby Catholic church.

He took his first oaths and was made a deacon in 1981. Next year in Rome, he was made a priest by Overbishop Jean Jadot. In 1985 he did an outreach in Peru, where he worked until he became an overbishop himself.

The name a new pope takes can be a foreshadowing of how they want to lead. Prevost is said to have chosen the name Leo XIV to show how highly he thought of Leo XIII. Pope Leo XIII was head of the church from 1878 to 1903 and is known for standing up for the rights of workers.


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