Students, Archbishop react to the selection of new Pope
As billions around the world watched the election of the new Pope, students at Montgomery Catholic School and the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mobile were also following the historic event.
Pope Leo XIV
Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Roman Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV
Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church.
