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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. Pope Leo the 14th is celebrating his

first mass following yesterday's historic election. Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American

to lead the Catholic Church as Pope. NPR's Sylvia Pajoli has more from Rome.

The last Leo was Leo the 13th, and he was known for his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum of New

Things. In it, he outlined the rights of workers to fair wages, safe working conditions, and the

creation of trade unions.

The document also affirmed the right to own property, free enterprise, and it was opposed to both

socialism and less-a-faire capitalism.

Leo the 13th was called the Social Pope or the

Workers Pope, and he is really seen as the founder of the Catholic Church's social doctrine.

That's NPR's Sylvia Pajoli. Catholics in the Chicago area are celebrating Pope Leo

the 14th as a native of the Windy City. Michael Puente with member station WBEZ reports.

Cardinal Robert Previls grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago, which have suffered economic

decline over the decades. His home parish, St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in

Dalton, has been closed and abandoned for more than a

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