Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

On day two of the conclave, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Here's everything to know by Cardinal Robert Prevost, who has chosen Pope Leo XIV as his papal name.

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a pope from the states, but it has happened.

Leo XIV’s predecessor Pope Francis, birth name Jorge Maria Bergoglio, appointed 80% of the cardinals who voted to elect one of them as the next pope. Most of Bergoglio’s appointees are younger and more racially and geographically diverse than the men they replaced, and many appear to be far more progressive than he was.

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine, and draped in a gold embroidered sash. He clasped his hands in prayer, and smiled as the crowds chanted his name, and “Viva La Papa!”

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said maybe now that he's pope, their old church will be reopened.

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Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the Catholic Church’s new pope, Leo XIV. His election marks the first instance of an American pope for the church.

As U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost realized during the secret conclave that he might be elected the next Catholic pope, he put his head in his hands at the daunting prospect of leading the 1.4-billion-member Church,