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Pope Leo XIV elected: Live updates after Cardinal Prevost named 1st American pontiff by conclave
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is from Chicago.
Kate Murphy, Katie Mather and Dylan Stableford, 05/09/25
A new pope has been elected. Robert Francis Prevost, the first American pope, has been selected by the papal conclave to take over as leader of the 1.4 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
The new pontiff, who has taken the name Leo XIV, was chosen on day 2 of the conclave. It came over two weeks after the death of Pope Francis at age 88.
Prevost, 69, is a Chicago-born cardinal who previously served in Peru for two decades.
Just after 6 p.m. local time in Vatican City (noon ET), white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney as bells rang, which symbolized that the conclave had reached the two-thirds majority necessary for a new pope.
Previous votes, which resulted in black smoke coming from the chapel, meant that a vote was inconclusive and did not reach a decision.
The papal conclave began on May 7 with 133 electors, the largest number of voting cardinals in history.
A crowd of more than 10,000 people had gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday to await the results of the votes.
The newly elected pope appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, where he was introduced to the world.
Dylan Stableford
Pope Leo shared posts critical of Trump and Vance on X
Pope Leo XIV will soon take over the @pontifex account on X, like his predecessors. But Robert Prevost, the newly-elected pope, was already fairly active on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
He joined in 2011. His most recent post, dated April 14, is a reshare of an X post that is critical of the Trump administration's deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a U.S. citizen, to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Another post dated Feb. 13 links to an essay by Pope Francis speaking out against the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants.
And a post dated Feb. 3 shares the link of an op-ed in the National Catholic Reporter entitled, "JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others."
Kate Murphy
Obama congratulates new pope, a fellow Chicagoan
In a social media post, former President Barack Obama congratulated fellow Chicagoan Robert Prevost for being elected the new pontiff, calling it a "historic day."
What happens now?
Usually, within a week of a new pontiff being elected, a ceremonial Mass is held either in St. Peter's Square or the basilica to formally install the new pope.
In attendance at the Mass will be cardinals, bishops and other international dignitaries.
Modern ceremonies are more modest and have abandoned much of the pageantry once involved, like crowning the new pope with a three-tiered headdress.
Dylan Stableford
Here's what the crowd looked like as Pope Leo was introduced
Tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square to see and hear from Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost.
Here's a view of the crowd via Reuters photographer Murad Sezer. 請至原網頁觀看照片
Kate Murphy
New pope outlines his vision for the Catholic Church, pays tribute to Pope Francis
In his first remarks after being chosen as the new pontiff today, Pope Leo XIV outlined his vision for the Catholic Church.
"We have to seek together to be a missionary church. A church that builds bridges and dialogue," he said, according to an English translation of his remarks, which were mostly in Italian. He also called on people to "show our charity" to others "and be in dialog with love."
He also paid tribute to the late Pope Francis, saying: "Let us keep in our ears the weak voice of Pope Francis that blesses Rome. The Pope who blessed Rome, gave his blessing to the entire world that morning of Easter. Allow me to follow up on that blessing. God loves us. God loves everyone. Evil will not prevail."
Kate Murphy
President Trump welcomes news of an American pope
President Trump welcomed the news of the first American pope and congratulated Cardinal Robert Prevost in a post on social media, writing:
"Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!"
Mike Bebernes
The new pope moves Leo up the all-time name list
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is the 14th pontiff to carry the name Leo as head of the Catholic church.
There have been more than 250 popes altogether, and some names have been reused many times. Thanks to the new pope, Leo now moves into a tie for fourth most-common papal name with Clement. The only names used more times than Leo are Benedict (15 times), Gregory (16 times) and John (21 times).
Dylan Stableford
What else we know about Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV waves from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Thursday. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) 請至原網頁觀看照片
We're quickly learning more about Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to be elected pontiff.
Prevost, 69, was born in Chicago but spent more than two decades in Peru, where he became a bishop and a naturalized citizen, according to the New York Times.
He rose through the religious ranks from there, running the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world. He was made a cardinal by Pope Francis less than two years ago.
He speaks Spanish and Italian and is "often described as reserved and discreet," the New York Times reported.
Kate Murphy
Leo XIV says, 'Peace be with you' in 1st words as new pope
Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican before a massive cheering crowd on Thursday and looked visibly emotional. His first words as pope were, "Peace be with you."
Dylan Stableford
The new pope is Robert Francis Prevost — Pope Leo XIV
Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal who previously served in Peru, was named the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday following the conclave's decisive vote. He is the first American pope.
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti made the announcement from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica.
Mamberti also announced Prevost's chosen papal name: Pope Leo.
Crowd grows at the Vatican ahead of new pope's introduction
White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Thursday. (Bernat Armangue/AP) (AP) 請至原網頁觀看照片
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請參考：
* Pope Leo says 'delusion of omnipotence' is fueling U.S.-Israeli war in Iran
* Trump takes aim at Pope Leo again, days after calling him ‘weak on crime’
* Italian PM condemns ally Trump over 'unacceptable' Pope criticism
* Trump Posts AI Photo With Jesus—Days After He Was Slammed For ‘Blasphemy’
我不得不說：我給川某起的外號 -- 川瘋、川痞、川蠢等等 – 還真的是唯妙唯肖，入木三分，傳神得緊。
Trump's rift with Pope is playing out in public - it's costing him valuable support
Aleem Maqbool, Religious affairs correspondent, 04/15/26
It is not unusual for President Trump to face criticism from Catholic leaders.
His hardline immigration policies, promised in his campaign and cheered on by supporters, have prompted condemnation from church leaders.
For months it has put the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the US at odds with more right-leaning rank-and-file Catholics.
But the broad backlash in the last 48 hours, over Trump's attack on Pope Leo and his sharing of an AI image of himself as a Christ-like figure, is very different.
What is striking is where some of this criticism is coming from - loyal, conservative Catholic allies.
They are unhappy, not just because of Trump's public friction with Pope Leo, but at a much deeper level over the Iran war.
The uproar over Trump's lengthy social media attack on the first American pope, as too liberal and too "weak on crime", together with the AI image, have crystallised a shift in opinion among many Catholic conservatives since the war began six weeks ago.
"I pray that all of this will clarify for people that we don't look to a national leader, we don't look to those who have the most money or the most weapons. We look to Christ," says Bishop Joseph Strickland.
These words come from a man who, only last year, participated in a prayer event to "consecrate" the president's Mar-a-Lago home.
In 2024, Strickland delivered the keynote speech at CPAC where Donald Trump was the guest of honour. In 2020, he addressed a march of Trump supporters calling to overturn the election results.
He has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump through thick and thin. Indeed, his overt political alignment, and open confrontation with the late Pope Francis, even played a part in his removal from office as Bishop of Tyler, Texas.
Yet, in the face of starkly competing White House and Vatican narratives regarding the war in Iran and the wider Middle East, Bishop Strickland has made a rare break from the administration.
"I do not believe this conflict meets the criteria of a just war. I stand with the Holy Father and his call for peace. This is not about politics. It's about moral truth," he told the BBC, saying the scale of death and suffering faced by innocent civilians meant the war could never be viewed as "just".
More than that, he has challenged the White House on its handling of the war and encouraged other Catholics to do the same.
"It becomes very dark when religion is used to justify immoral behaviour... using religion to justify especially dropping bombs is contradicting what the faith is about," says Bishop Strickland.
When asked about Trump's attack on Pope Leo and the image some have referred to as "AI Jesus", which Trump said he thought was a doctor not Jesus, Bishop Strickland said he felt it was his "duty" to remind the US president of the Gospel of Matthew. He pointed to a passage that teaches that supreme power resides with Christ and not with any man.
"When world leaders forget this truth, all are in peril," he said.
This shift in the way conservative Catholics regard the US president comes with political perils, given that he increased his support among that group in the 2024 election.
It remains a complex picture, according to Pew Research Center. Racial background played a significant role, with 62% of White Catholics voting for Donald Trump and 37% for Kamala Harris, while 41% of Hispanic Catholics voted Trump and 58% Harris.
This still constituted a trend towards the Republican Party among Catholics as a whole, but with pronounced splits.
Historically, the data suggests that when it comes to outlook, politics is more important than faith for a lot of American Catholics. They are largely split along party lines, says Greg Smith, Senior Associate Director of Religion Research at Pew Research Center.
US Catholics have constituencies that hold highly polarised positions on issues like abortion and immigration. It is why a coming together like this among Catholics on the left and right over the Iran war is rare.
Their views of the head of the Catholic Church bear this out. Pope Francis was much more popular among Catholic Democrats than Catholic Republicans, while Leo enjoys high support from both, according to Pew.
Pope Francis was often seen as a spontaneous progressive, who sometimes alienated Catholic traditionalists - for example in his restrictions on Latin Mass, which Pope Leo has eased.
The Pope is not above a certain level of criticism, says Peter Wolfgang, the executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, and a prominent voice of the US Catholic "right".
"The Pope is the Pope, we owe him a certain amount of deference, but I don't think that Catholicism wants the obedience of cadavers. We are living, thinking persons," he says.
Wolfgang has transitioned from a cautious Trump pragmatist, keen that abortion laws be overturned, to a more enthusiastic supporter. He is a strong defender of mass deportation policies and the brand of Catholic nationalism represented by JD Vance. But he is now highly critical of the US president's behaviour towards Pope Leo.
"President Trump does not understand how Catholicism works. The Pope is not merely a head of state, he is the Vicar of Christ. Attacks on him are received as attacks on the Church itself. The more he attacks the Pope the more his support will drop among his Catholic voters," Wolfgang told the BBC.
Peter Wolfgang says his faith led him to challenge US Catholic bishops when they criticised President Trump's immigration policies, but the same faith makes him opposed to this war.
"When President Trump is out there talking about ending Iranian civilisation, or Secretary Hegseth is out there making some bloodthirsty prayer that is unrecognisable to Catholics, then it's completely natural for conservative Catholics to line up behind Pope Leo," he says.
Soon after the first US and Israeli attacks on Iran, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recited a highly controversial prayer at a Pentagon worship service that talked of "overwhelming violence" and "justice executed swiftly and without remorse".
In his writings, Peter Wolfgang often reserves his fiercest criticism for the Catholic "left" but he thinks the Iran issue has to some extent unified factions, partly because of the clarity of the Pope's anti-war messaging.
Unusually no senior US Catholic member of clergy publicly has supported the war in Iran. Even Robert Barron, Bishop of Winona-Rochester, a key Trump ally, demanded that the US president apologise to the pope for his angry tirade, a demand that was rebuffed.
Positioned on the liberal wing of the Catholic church, Steven Greydanus, a deacon and prominent commentator, also sees this unusual convergence of opinion.
He feels that a contributory factor has been the White House's "subversion" of the principles of "Just War Theory" - theology that determines when it is right to go to war and how to conduct that war.
But he says it is also partly down to the contrast between President Trump and the "healing presence" of Pope Leo.
"While I am grieved by the directness of Donald Trump's attacks on Pope Leo, in a way I welcome the clarity of the choice Catholics are being presented with," Greydanus says.
The Vatican has stuck to the narrative that what we have seen play out in recent weeks is not a battle between Pope Leo and President Trump at all, but a Pope clearly drawing on his faith to oppose the logic of this war.
But when President Trump said that "a whole civilisation would die" in Iran, the pope did respond directly, calling the threat "truly unacceptable".
"There is an important difference between challenging a man and challenging the principle that makes war possible," says the Reverend Antonio Spadaro SJ, Undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery (Ministry) for Culture and Education.
Rev Spadaro told the BBC that while dialogue was happening behind the scenes in "places of power", the Pope also had to make public pronouncements against the conflict to "mark the moral limit" of what was acceptable.
So what is the view from Vatican City about some convergence between US Catholics on the left and right in their backing of Pope Leo's anti-war messaging?
"He does not unite everyone, of course," says Rev Spadaro. "But Pope Leo moves the Catholic debate away from a purely partisan track."
There are questions about why President Trump would post an AI image that was certain to alienate and offend some of his supporters. Unusually, he did back down and delete it.
And there are questions about the the motive of the tirade against Pope Leo. For some, it appeared to be designed to diminish the Pope's opposition to the war.
"But in trying to delegitimise, Trump's attack implicitly acknowledges the weight of the pope's moral voice," says the Vatican's Rev Spadaro.
"If Leo were irrelevant, he would not deserve a word. Instead, he is invoked, named, opposed - a sign that his words matter."
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"I’m Ashamed To Be Catholic": Conservatives Are Losing Their [Redacted] Minds About The Pope's Comments About Iran
Bella Arnold, 03/04/26
If you know anything about the current pope — Pope Leo XIV — it might be one of two things.
One: His preferred hot-dog toppings are mustard and ketchup only.
And two: He's woke as hel—sorry...heck.
The American-born pope has held the position for less than a year, but still has managed to rile up MAGA with his "OUTRAGEOUS" opinions many, many times.
Like, that WILD time when he called out people with both anti-abortion and pro-death penalty beliefs, saying that's not "really pro-life." Or, any of the UNHINGED instances when he spoke about ICE, once saying, "No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need." You know, just suuuuper hot takes coming from Mr. P.
Now, he's talking about the US and Israel's strike on Iran.
Pope Leo XIV tweeted, "I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue."
@pontifex / Via Twitter: @Pontifex
He continued, "Faced with the possibility of a tragedy of immense proportions, I make a heartfelt appeal to all the parties involved to assume the moral responsibility of halting the spiral of violence before it becomes an unbridgeable chasm. May diplomacy regain its proper role, and may the well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice, be upheld. And let us continue to pray for peace."
@pontifex / Via Twitter: @Pontifex
What Da Pope obviously didn't consider is that random people on the internet understand Catholicism better than him. (Please note the sarcasm.) These Experts™ are not happy with his take on the situation, and letting him know in the replies! Here's what they're saying:
"I'm ashamed to be catholic."
@njmaga88 / Via Twitter: @NJMAGA88
"FYI: This kind of pious BLATHER blather is why many people AVOID God. Please stop."
@ericmetaxas / Via Twitter: @ericmetaxas
(Note to self: Don't...be...pious...if...you're...the...pope. Got it!)
"No one needs you to keep posting your fortune cookies."
@aliabunimah / Via Twitter: @AliAbunimah
Yet, peppered among these super-sweet little nuggets of wisdom are also people defending the pope.
"The amount of 'conservative Christian bloggers' trying to explain Catholicism to the pope is wild."
@christopherhale / Via Twitter: @ChristopherHale
"I'm almost certian most american christians have no idea what jesus said."
@seankelly014 / Via Twitter: @seankelly014
"Yes, I completely agree with you that we must continue to pray for peace, we must pray every single day. It is terribly tragic what is happening now in the Middle East, Ukraine and several other places where there is war."
@unnio11 / Via Twitter: @unnio11
"Thank God for the Pope!"
@maycrawford777 / Via Twitter: @MayCrawford777
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