Robert Francis Prevost, who was chosen the 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thors Day and the name of Pope Leo XIV, is the first Pope in the United States.
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Taking the name of Pope Leo XIV, the immediate successor of Pope Francis has the potential to shake the global Catholic power structure.
As a American, he is positioned exclusively to defend the conservative Catholicism energized in his country of origin, and has forth strongly against the militant vision of Christian power that the Trump administration has elevated.
Despite its American roots, the Polyglot born in Chicago, 69, is seen as a church man who transcends borders. It served for two decades in Peru, where he became bishop and naturalized citizen, then rose to lead his international religious order. Under Pope Francis, he held one of the most influential Vatican positions, directing the office that selects and manages bishops worldwide.
That made him an attractive choice for the Roman curia, the powerful desktop Cracy that governs the Church and that, after he frequently represses and touches Pope Francis, wanted someone who knew and appreciated the instance.
Member of the Order of St. Augustine, shares Francis’s commitment to help the poor and migrants. He told the official Vatican news website last year that “the bishop is supposed to be a little prince sitting in his kingdom, but is called authentically humble, to be close to the people he serves, walk with them, suffer with them and look for ways in which he can live better the message of the gospel in the mid -people.”
It is often described as reserved and discreet, Hey will probably start stylistically from Francis as Pope. Supporters believe that the advisory process initiated by Francis will probably continue to include lay people in some meetings with bishops.
In a conclave with ideological divisions among those who wanted to continue with the inclusive but sometimes provocative agenda of Pope Francis, and those who preferred a more conservative pedestch in a doctrinal alternative of purity, probably Pope Leo XIV.
“It’s not a great great,” said Reverend Mark R. Francis, a former classmate of Cardinal Prevost, who directs the American arm of St. Viaator’s clergy, a religious order, in Chicago.
“He is a very balanced and measured child or person who deals well with crisis in a sense,” said Father Francis. “It doesn’t invade it. He thinks and sacrifices a very stable leadership.”
It has spent much of his life outside the United States. Ordered in Rome in 1982 at age 27, he recovered a doctorate in Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also in Rome. In Peru, he was a missionary, pastor, teacher and bishop. As leader of the Augustinians, the orders visited worldwide, and he speaks Spanish and Italian.
Francis sought to expand the geographical diversity of the church hierarchy and appointed many new cardinals, some of countries who had never had one before. Francis gave Cardinal Prevost his red hat in 2023, making him one of the most recent members of the Cardinals College who chose him.
A diplomatic treaty required him to naturalize him as a citizen or Peru before he could become a bishop in Chiclayo, a city in the northwest of the country. Duration of his time as a bishop in Chiclayo, often visited remote communities.
The laity incorporated in pastoral social work, said Yolanda Díaz, teacher and member of the Church in Chiclayo. “Instead of thinking about pastoral work as people who go to church,” he said, “wanted the church to go to people.”
Sister Dianne Bergant, who taught her in biblical classes in the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where she recovered a master’s degree in Divinity in 1982, said she was a quiet “student.” She said that when they did a cardinal decades after he had a leg in his class in his class, he immediately responded to a congratulation email that sent him, thanking him for helping him in his theological development.
Pope Leo XIV may not be as cozy openly cozy for LGBTQ people as his predecessor, who said “Who am I to judge?” When asked about homosexual clergy.
In a speech of 2012 to the bishops, before the cited words of Pope Francis, the cardinal prevailed regretted that Western news and popular culture fostered “sympathy for the beliefs and practices that disagree with the Gospel.” He cited the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families composed of same -sex partners and their adopted children.”
As a bishop in Chiclayo, he opposed a government plan to add teachings about gender in schools. “The promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genres that do not exist,” he told local media.
Cardinal Prevost, like many of the others who finally chose him, has received criticism about his treatment with the aggression of priests or sexual abuse.
In Chicago, Advocates for Victims of Sexual Abuse Say That Office Did Not Warn A Nearby Catholic School That a Priest who Church Leaders Determined had abused Young Boys for Years was sheltered in a monastery nearby or the Time, as head of the head of the head of the head of the head Of The Header, As Head of the Header, As Head of the Head of the Header, As Head of the Heady, As Head of the Header, As Head of the Header, As Head of the header, as head of half, as head of half, like the head of the medium. Prevost would have approved the movement of the priest to the monastery.
Friends say that it is relaxed and humble, that it falls through the Augustinian monastery in Rome to eat with priests in the order and always washing their own dishes, said Reverend Alejandro Moral Antón, the successor of Cardinal Prevost as an Augustinian leader in Rome.
Reverend Michele Falcone, 46, a priest in the order of San Agustín, led by Cardinal Prevost, said that his mentor and friend had a collaborative leadership style and could be flexible depending on the context. I could wear highly formal clothing for an imperial mass while dressed more casually for a local parish.
He is known for playing a tennis game and is a baseball fan, explaining the rules to some of his Italian and other Augustinian friends.
In recent years, the Catholic Archdiocese in Chicago, directed by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, became an important region of support for the agenda of Pope Francis for the Church.
The inhabitants of Chicago immediately rejoiced for the news that the first American Pope was originally from his city. Father William Lego, the shepherd of the Church of San Turibio in Chicago, knew the new Pope when they were young seminarians.
“I think my classmate understands it,” he said, sounding stunned, from his office. “They chose a good man. He always had the feeling of being aware of the poor and trying to help them.”
When his name was first announced in the square, many in the crowd were completely perplexed. “No Italian?” Several said, and a man repeated the announcement he had captured on his phone to see if he could hear the name.
Behind him, Nicole Serena, 21, an Italian-American who studies marketing in Rome, said: “I think an American Pope was chosen.”
Benjamin Smith 20, from Crosby, Minnesota, said he had never heard of Cardinal Prevost. “But this is incredible,” said Mr. Smith, an exchange student who studies theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, where the cardinal received his doctorate. “I’m so excited,” said Smith.
In Peru, Father Pedro Vásquez, 82, a priest in Chiclayo, where Cardinal Prevost served as Archbishop, was so excited that he said that “my heart will fail me!”
“I’m going to pass out!” Hey, he said: “My God, my God, my God!”
MITRA TAJ Reports contributed by Lima, Peru, Julie Turkewitz de Bogotá, Colombia, Josephine de la Bruyère From Rome and Julie Bosman of Chicago.
