Habemus Papam: Pope Leo XIV.
I was born in Rome in the 90s but yesterday I did something I never did before. I was sitting in my office while listening to the reports on the Conclave when all of a sudden, around 6pm white smoke came out of the chimney installed on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. I rushed to St. Peter's Square, nearly got killed a few times while riding my bicycle, went past the hordes and managed to get a decent enough spot halfway through the Via della Conciliazione just in time to hear the famous words Habemus Papam and a tiny man in white came out of the balcony in St. Peter's basilica. We have a pope, to a Roman their local, to the wider Church, their pastor and successor of Peter. The first American pope; Leo XIV. Robert Francis Prevost was born on 14th September 1955 in Chicago to parents of French, Italian and Spanish descent, as a young man he was already deeply religious. He entered the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977, he then moves on to Rome for his training in theology and ca...
