Robert Francis Prevost is our new pontiff. Labeled Pope Leo XIV, the white smoke was released two days into the conclave. And unfortunately, he’s a guy from Chicago.
To be fair, the church sees him as a man of the world and sure, I believe it. But what is important is his politics. Pope Francis was one of our more liberal pontiffs and so his replacement was a very big deal. But according to The New York Times, Pope Leo is similar to Francis on his stance to the poor and migrants (which was a point of contention with the previous Pope and the Trump administration). When asked previously about the status of the bishop, he said “the bishop is not supposed to be a little prince sitting in his kingdom.”
