The First American Pope

What A Day

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We have a new pope, and he’s from Chicago! On the second day of the papal conclave Thursday, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. He’s the first American citizen to hold the position, but he also spent two decades serving in Peru, before the late Pope Francis chose him for an influential post at the Vatican. Pope Leo XIV now has a very, very big job leading the world’s 1.36 billion Catholics amid major tensions within the church, between those aligned with Francis’ efforts to make the church more inclusive and those who think those efforts have undermined Catholic tradition. Christopher White, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and author of the forthcoming book ’Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy,’ tells us more about the new pope’s selection and what we can expect from his papacy. And in headlines: President Donald Trump unveiled his first big new trade deal with… the United Kingdom, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced plans for a much-needed update to the nation’s air traffic control system, and former President Joe Biden defended his time in office during an interview with The View.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, May 9th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wad Today, where we're excited to see Fox News host and Loud Talker Janine Piro become the new interim attorney general for D.C.
0:12.4	She will be the 23rd Fox employee to take part in this administration.
0:17.1	And be honest.
0:18.6	If you're on Fox News and Trump hasn't given you a big federal job, are you like a little insulted at this point?
0:25.2	Like, what does Jesse Waters have to do to get an ambassadorship?
0:43.8	On today's show, Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy shares his big plan to overhaul the air traffic control system.
0:47.0	And is FBI director Cash Patel even working?
0:52.0	But let's start with the Vatican because we have a new Pope, and he's from Chicago.
0:57.0	God loves us. God loves everyone. Evil will not prevail.
1:01.0	We are all in the hands of God.
1:04.0	Therefore, without fear, united, hand in hand with God and amongst ourselves, let us go forward.
1:16.9	Yes, the new Pope, the Bishop of Rome and the head of the Catholic Church, is Cardinal Robert Provost, who has taken the new name Leo XIV.
1:25.2	He's a graduate of Villanova University, but has spent a lot of his
1:28.1	adult life living in Peru, where he became a bishop and a naturalized citizen. And before his
1:32.9	election during the conclave, most Catholics had probably never heard of him. He now has a very,
1:38.2	very, very big job. In 2020, there were about 1.36 billion Catholics on Earth, roughly one out of every five people.
1:47.4	And Catholicism is growing fastest in Africa and Asia.
1:50.7	According to a paper published by the University of Southern California,
1:54.1	75% of Catholics will live outside of the West by 2050.
1:58.5	Catholicism is changing in a major way.
2:02.9	But as the first American pontiff,
2:07.8	Pope Leo the 14th will likely need to have his eye on the 62 million Americans who identify as Catholics and the cultural and, yes, political issues that drive them. From debates over the Latin
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