Despite skepticism due to the United States’ geopolitical power, Pope Leo XIV is the first American-born pope.
SEATTLE — Just over 24 hours after the conclave began deliberating, a historic notification appeared on Vivian Shannon’s smartwatch while she was at mass: the new pope was selected.
“I looked at his face, and I was like, ‘What?’ I zoomed right in and thought, ‘No way, it can’t be him,’” she said.
Shannon had a photo on her phone with Robert Francis Prevost, who is now taking up the mantle as Pope Leo XIV. In November, Shannon, the executive director of the Fulcrum Foundation, which supports
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