American Cardinal Robert Prevost elected as new Pope, and he selects papal name of Leo XIV

[Multicolored Lemur]

Who is Pope Leo XIV? American Cardinal Robert Prevost is the new pope

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here's what to know about him.

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“ . . He graduated from Villanova University in Pennsylvania with a degree in mathematics, then studied theology at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago, . . ”

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Okay, let’s start with this. Someone once said that the mark of an educated person is the ability to read a list of numbers and weep. Either tears of relief, or of disappointment.

Pope Leo will be a little harder to fool on church finances. When he delegates, he might really delegate. And check up. And spot-check. Now, me personally, I’d let people know in advance because my goal is to prevent misconduct, and not just “get” people. But there are different ways to play that hand.

And with disaster relief, refugees, good deeds, all of that . . . You want to find ways of measuring, Are we doing the most good with our limited resources?

 

[Multicolored Lemur]

with the trading of military strikes between Pakistan and India, maybe Pope Leo could have a top aide talk with each leader, hey, the Pope is planning a trip through Asia and he’d love to add (Pakistan) (India) to the itinerary.

privately, at the beginning of your tenure as Pope. This will get out, of course it will. And you don’t want to reward countries for military conflict.

 

[AgnosticBoy]

Pope Francis died at age 88, and became the Pope at age 75 (in 2013). At least this new Pope is a little younger than 75, but I do hope he retires if or when he starts having serious health problems.