This American pope

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The cardinals have elected a new pope: Robert Prevost, a cardinal born in Chicago. He has taken the name Leo XIV. He is the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church.

NPR's Scott Detrow has been in Rome all week. He talks through what we might expect from Pope Leo XIV with NPR religion correspondent Jason DeRose, and former, longtime NPR Rome correspondent Sylvia Poggioli.

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0:00.0	These words we expected to hear this week.
0:03.9	Annuncio vobis, Gaudium magnum.
0:07.9	Latin for I announced to you a great joy.
0:11.8	We have a pope.
0:13.4	Abemus Papam.
0:16.6	These words we were not expected.
0:19.6	Oh my goodness.
0:21.2	The Pope is from Chicago.
0:24.4	My co-host, Scott Dutro in Rome, reacting there in real time to the news that Robert Francis Prevost, an American cardinal, has been named Pope.
0:34.6	He has taken the name Leo the 14th.
0:39.3	He is the first American pope.
0:42.2	And minutes after he was named,
0:43.9	he stepped to the microphone on the balcony
0:45.9	above St. Peter's Square
0:47.4	and greeted the church he now leads.
0:50.2	The Pace be with you all.
0:58.8	Consider this.
0:59.6	One point four billion Catholics have a new shepherd.
1:03.3	Who is he?
1:04.1	And where will he take them?
1:08.4	From NPR, I'm Mary Louise Kelly.
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