A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a pope from the states, but it has happened.

That left Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69 — a quiet American dark horse who had, surprisingly, emerged in the evening’s vote — as a source of particular interest.

“I couldn’t imagine what happens with a human being when you’re facing something like that,” said Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, Archbishop of Newark. The election of the first-ever American ...

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The 69-year-old Chicago-born cardinal chose the papal name Leo XIV. It was considered a bit of an unlikely outcome considering the Trump administration's moves toward cutting worldwide aid and its ...

Following Cardinal Robert Prevost's appointment as the first American-born pope, past social media posts about the VP surfaced. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Following ...

Over the last week and a half since the death of Pope Francis, lists of his possible successors have proliferated on social media and in newspapers. Some names—like Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, about the significance of the Cardinals electing the first pope from the United States.

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