What we covered here • First American pope: Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the first US-born pontiff and will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

Only one congregation in recent history has lost its exemption for electioneering — namely, an upstate New York church that took out anti-Bill Clinton ads in several large newspapers in 1992.

Paul Elie writes about how Pope Francis’s decade as the head of the Catholic Church has challenged Catholic traditionalists and changed the Church.