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Everything we know about the U.S. cardinal elected Pope Leo XIV

Name: Everything we know about the U.S. cardinal elected Pope Leo XIV
Uploaded: 2025-05-08T18:30:00-0400
Duration: 8 min 3 s
Description: The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church chose 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, to be the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. He took the name Pope Leo XIV. Papal experts Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo, Delia Gallagher and John Allen join with analysis.

The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church chose 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, to be the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. He took the name Pope Leo XIV. Papal experts Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo, Delia Gallagher and John Allen join with analysis.