VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago born Catholic has been selected by the Conclave to become the newest Pope. Born in 1955, Prevost grew up on the south side of Chicago and attended college in Chicago.
“I know Pope Leo XIV to be a kind, open, humble, modest, decisive, hard-working, straightforward, trustworthy, and down-to-earth man. A brilliant choice. May God bless him,” said James Martin, Jesuit priest, editor at large at America Magazine, The Jesuit Review.
According to NBC 5 Chicago: Leo was ordained a priest in 1982, having studied at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, receiving his masters degree in the city. While he spent some of his early years in Peru, he returned to the U.S. in 1999 to serve in Chicago as Provincial and Prior General of the Augustinian Province.
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