US EditionAn American Pope Will Try to Unify a Divided Church
- Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the 267th pope on May 8, 2025, taking the name Pope Leo XIV.
- His election follows a period of crisis for the Catholic Church, including bankruptcy due to abuse settlements in places like the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
- Pope Leo XIV inherits a deeply fractured Church that struggles with restoring moral authority and faces divisions over abuse, women’s leadership, LGBTQ rights, and politics.
- Survivors and observers question what the Church may be hiding, while some see his election as a test of credibility amid an increasingly politicized and splintered American Catholicism.
- Leo XIV faces the challenge of renewing a broken institution through truth and transparency, with uncertainty whether he will heal the Church or manage its decline.
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The American Pope Inherits a Church in Crisis. Can He Lead It Out?
Credit: Frayjhonattan via CC by 4.0 History was made this week in Vatican City, but not quietly. On May 8, 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago was elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. This marks the first time an American has ascended to the papacy in the Church’s two-millennia history. Born in Chicago in 1955, Pope Leo’s résumé reads like a catalogue of service: missionary work in Pe…
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