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Seventeen popes have presided over the Catholic Church since the founding of the United States. None of those men has been American. That changed when Robert Francis Prevost, son of Chicago’s South Side, emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Thursday. More on the new pope 👇

May 9, 2025, 6:47 PM

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