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.