Before we met Pope Leo XIV, shows like "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope" mythologized the Vatican to the masses.

And the surprise result of the first-ever American pope delivered a shocking conclusion ... But there will, of course, be implications for the nation’s broader political and civic life.

The election of an American Pope breaks paradigms: from 33 A.D. to 2025, 80% of the 266 popes were Italian. The United States, despite having 85 million Catholics, had never had a pope.

My favorite early fact about Pope Bob from Chicago comes from his ... God is love and all its implications — this idea can make life bearable, and yet be so hard to believe.

“The conventional wisdom was that there would not be an American pope because of geopolitical implications,” said Morrill, a Jesuit priest. Morrill also noted that Leo XIII issued the first ...

Chris Cuomo, NewsNation anchor and lifelong Catholic, says Pope Leo XIV’s first decision ... “He picked the namesake that suggests real implications about what he will think about what ...

Before that illusion was dashed as falsehood by fact-checking colleagues, I had already reflected with no small excitement on the implications of a jazz-playing pope. And I wasn ... Jazz began in the ...

In a historic development for the Catholic Church, U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost has assumed the papal tiara as Pope Leo XIV. This marks the first time an American has been elected to lead the Church, ...

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