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1 week ago | japantoday.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Robert Francis Prevost, 69, became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. A crowd tens of thousands erupted in prayer and emotion as Leo, successor to the late Francis, appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver the first address of his ministry. "To all people, wherever they are, to all peoples, to the whole Earth, peace be with you," a smiling Leo told the crowd.

1 week ago | ibtimes.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. A crowd tens of thousands erupted in prayer and emotion as Leo, successor to the late Francis, appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver the first address of his ministry. "To all people, wherever they are, to all peoples, to the whole Earth, peace be with you," a smiling Leo told the crowd.

1 week ago | barrons.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday after cardinals from around the globe chose him as the first American leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. A crowd tens of thousands erupted in prayer and emotion as Leo, successor to the late Francis, appeared on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica to deliver the first address of his ministry. "To all people, wherever they are, to all peoples, to the whole Earth, peace be with you," a smiling Leo told the crowd.

1 week ago | modernghana.com | Ella Ide |Umberto Bacchi |Alice Ritchie

Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Thursday, sending up white smoke from the Sistine Chapel on their second day of voting in conclave. Tens of thousands of people packed in St Peter's Square cheered, applauded and wept as the smoke appeared, while the bells of St Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome rang out.

2 weeks ago | news-herald.net | Ella Ide |Clément Melki

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope