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null / Credit: Kelleher photography/Shutterstock CNA Staff, May 9, 2025 / 17:58 pm (CNA). Before he was pope, he was a math major at a Catholic liberal arts university in Pennsylvania. Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head of the Catholic Church. He’s also a class of ‘77 alumnus of Villanova University, which is run…

Americans gather in St. Peter’s Square on May 8, 2025, to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the United States. / Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA Vatican City, May 9, 2025 / 18:28 pm (CNA). Americans gathered in St. Peter’s Square on May 8 to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV,…

Then-Cardinal Robert Prevost speaking at St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox, Illinois, on Aug. 7, 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of St. Jude Catholic Church in New Lenox, Illinois CNA Staff, May 9, 2025 / 16:58 pm (CNA). Nine months ago, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost sat down for an interview at a parish in the…

Crowds of the faithful fill St. Peter’s Square awaiting smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 / Credit: EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 9, 2025 / 17:28 pm (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news that you might have missed this week: Indian and Pakistani cardinals leave St. Peter’s…

Pope Benedict XVI greets the future Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican Gardens. / Credit: Courtesy of the Augustinian Midwest Province (USA), Our Mother of Good Counsel ACI Prensa Staff, May 9, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV had the opportunity to meet three of his predecessors at the helm of the Barque…

Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful in St. Peter’s Square shortly after his election to the papacy, Thursday, May 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Lima Newsroom, May 9, 2025 / 14:49 pm (CNA). In some of his first words to the world on May 8, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV recalled the land where he…