Yesenia Zamora-Cardoso

1 month ago | michiganpublic.org | Laura Weber Davis |Yesenia Zamora-Cardoso

Recently, Leo XIV was elected as the first American Pope. Born Robert Prevost in the Southside of Chicago, Pope Leo spent part of his high school years at St. Augustine Seminary High School in West Michigan. It was in Laketown, and part of the Dioceses of Kalamazoo. Niraj Warikoo, a religion reporter for the Detroit Free Press, discussed Pope Leo’s connections to our state. “He was there for four years, graduated in 1973. He had a strong connection to it,” Warikoo said. The school closed in the 1970s.