Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. CNN — Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is ...
In his first public remarks as Pope Leo XIV, Chicago-born Father Robert Prevost declared, “I am a son of St. Augustine.” The young Prevost attended St. Augustine Seminary High School in Michigan.
The former Prevost home at 212 E. 141st. Pl. in Dolton, Ill. Credit: Joe Hoover, S.J. The sheer Americanness of Leo XIV’s papacy was cut to its purest form, you might say, in early July of this year ...