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Will Pope Leo XIV bless the Chicago Bears? City hopes as one of their own becomes pope
As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, Chicago sports fans wonder if he will bless the city's struggling ...
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Faithful and political elite praise the selection of first American pope
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said, “I join Catholics around the world in congratulating Pope Leo XIV, the first American ...
Long before he was pope, Leo XIV was a skinny Villanova undergrad figuring out ‘do you want to live this life’
Prevost, the 267th leader of the church and the first American pope, is now Leo XIV. But back when he was skinny undergrad at Nova, he was just Robert. The Chicago native was in what the church calls ...