
Why the College of Cardinals chose the Chicago native and Augustinian to lead the church after Francis
When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on Might 8, 2025, appeared on the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the primary while as Pope Leo XIV, he was once cheered loudly via the plethora community of pilgrims, vacationers, native Catholics and alternative onlookers, who had waited hours for