Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 276th leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American-born pontiff. The 69-year-old polyglot was born in Chicago but has spent much of his life outside the U.S., serving two decades in Peru, where he became a bishop and naturalized citizen, before being elected head of the Augustinian Order. Pope Francis brought him to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the head of the office that vets bishop nom

Pope Francis creates 21 new Cardinals. Pope Francis encouraged the group of twenty-one new cardinals from across the globe to “walk in the way of Jesus: together, with humility, wonder and joy.” Presiding at Holy Mass for the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of New Cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Pope reminded the prelates receiving the red hat, that just as Jesus’ ascent to Jerusalem was not an ascent to worldly glory but to the glory of God, they too must put the Lord at the

Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals from 16 countries at a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican. Now, the current number of cardinals eligible to pick the next pope in the Catholic Church stands at 140, nearly 79% of whom were created by Pope Francis. | EWTN Vatican

Columbus fans blew the noise out the roof after witnessing Cardinal history. | The Colorado County Citizen