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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Pope Leo XIV, The First American Pope, Was Born In Chicago

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The Chicago born, Villanova graduate, Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes the first American to become pope after receiving more than two-thirds support of his 132 fellow cardinals. He is now going to be the 267th pope. We examine all the latest details on Pope Leo XIV.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is CNN Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and Habamus Popham.

0:39.9

We have a pope, the very first U.S.-born Pope, the Chicago-born Villanova grad,

0:45.2

Cardinal Robert Prevost, walked into the Vatican this week to participate in the conclave.

0:51.0

And after two days, locked inside, he was the one who secured the support of at least two-thirds of his 132 fellow Cardinals.

0:59.0

He is now going to be the 267th Hope.

1:03.0

He stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter's today as Leo the 14th, a man with U.S. roots,

1:11.6

though he has also spent much of his life

1:13.6

as a missionary in Peru.

1:15.6

The crowd in St. Peter Square was a sea of smiles and flags

1:19.6

as the new Pope gave his first blessings,

1:22.6

praising his predecessor and delivering a message of peace

1:25.6

to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

1:30.3

God loves everyone. Evil will not prevail. We are all in the hands of God.

1:39.3

Catholics across the U.S. are now finding connections with their new global leader here at the lead.

1:45.7

One of my producers received these yearbook photos from her uncle of Robert Prevost after he set a mass at his Philadelphia area high school in 2004, Go Birds.

1:56.3

An American Pope, a phenomenon never before experienced in our nation's history.

2:02.6

Maybe in no city in the U.S. are Catholics more excited than in Chicago, which is the hometown

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