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EXCLUSIVE🚨: Cardinal Robert Prevost named Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff

Season 1, Ep. 8212
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Robert Francis Prevost: the moderate, good humoured first American pope


Robert Francis Prevost – who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV – may not be the Latin American Jesuit wildcard that his predecessor, Pope Francis, was, but his election is similarly historic.


In the figure of the 69-year-old former head of the Augustinian order, the Roman Catholic church has its very first US leader.


Until Thursday evening, the idea of the fisherman’s ring being slipped on to a North American hand was seen as a fairly distant possibility.

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