Pope Leo XIV
267th Pope of the Catholic Church (2025-) · United States · Religious Figures · Born 1955 · age 71 · also Peru · also Vatican City
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The first American pope, elected in 2025 as a dark horse precisely because Vatican insiders thought a pontiff from a superpower was impossible. He took the name Leo XIV to signal a response to artificial intelligence the way Leo XIII answered the Second Industrial Revolution.
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Prevost in 1977, the same year he entered the Augustinian order
Prevost spent his novitiate at Immaculate Conception Church in St. Louis, Missouri.
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mary, Trujillo. As a young missionary, Prevost served in various roles in the Archdiocese of Trujillo.
St. Thomas School in Hyde Park, Chicago
St. Mary's Cathedral in Chiclayo, Peru, where Prevost was diocesan bishop from 2015 to 2023In their own words 10
, Today we desolately witness the unjust use of hunger as a weapon of war. Starving the population is a very cheap way of waging war.
We continue to follow carefully and with hope the developments in Iran, Israel and Palestine.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights , approved and proclaimed by the United Nations on 10 December 1948, is now part of humanity’s cultural heritage.
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Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, he became an Augustinian friar in 1977 and was ordained five years later. After earning a Doctor of Canon Law in Rome in 1987, he spent the late '80s and '90s doing missionary work across Peru - parish pastor, seminary teacher, diocesan administrator. Elected prior general of the Augustinians in 2001, he spent twelve years traveling the order's global network from a Rome base, then returned to Peru as Bishop of Chiclayo in 2015. Pope Francis brought him back to Rome in 2023 as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and made him a cardinal. Two years later the conclave chose him, the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the first to hold U.S. or Peruvian citizenship. He has opposed nationalism and armed conflict, warned about AI, and called the Second Vatican Council the church's guiding star.
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