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The American Pope: Leo XIV

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Live reporting from the Vatican as the world celebrates the first American Pope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Brad. Listen, we're going to have full coverage of the election of the new Catholic

0:04.7

Pope, Pope Leo, on Monday morning. But with the historic nature of all this, the fact that he's an

0:10.2

American, we thought it might be helpful to post this ABC News special that just ran across the nation.

0:15.9

It'll break down everything you need to know from the conclave to that announcement to the new

0:19.6

pontiff's biography.

0:25.4

So again, check the feed first thing Monday morning for a brand new daily edition of start here.

0:28.9

But in the meantime, here is that special as it just aired on TV.

0:34.8

History making. The world celebrates. Americans celebrate.

0:40.3

Pope Leo the 14th. From Chicago to the Vatican, to the first American Pope.

0:46.3

Now tonight, his remarkable journey, his unwavering faith, his path to the papacy,

0:53.3

and how his years serving in Peru shaped who he is today, now leader of the Catholic Church.

0:59.0

You have called me, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me.

1:04.0

Inside the conclave, inside the Sistine Chapel, how did he win the votes? What direction will he now take the church?

1:13.8

And what will his brothers reveal about growing up with the man who would be Pope?

1:19.3

The 2020 event special, the American Pope, Leo the 14th, starts now.

1:26.3

Reporting from the Vatican, David Muir.

1:29.4

Good evening tonight from the Vatican, where Rome and the world are celebrating the first ever

1:33.7

American Pope. Pope Leo the 14th, 69 years old, born in Chicago, walking out onto that

1:39.9

balcony behind me here and surprising the world, the first pope from the United States,

1:44.7

chosen by his fellow cardinals, to be the 267th Pope, to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

1:51.4

Less than 24 hours after being asked, do you accept your election as supreme pontiff and answering yes?

1:57.5

Tonight here in Rome, he has now celebrated his first Mass back in the Sistine Chapel,

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