Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.

It’s not clear what happened to the citizenship ... John Paul was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. Margaret Susan Thompson, a Syracuse University history professor and expert on American ...

The rules behind Pope Leo remaining a US citizen now he’s a foreign head of state - Other US citizens have served as foreign ...

A pope from ... influence from non-Irish Catholic immigrants, who often came from nations with Catholic governments. Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago. His family has French, Italian, Spanish ...

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The last pope to take the name Leo was Leo XIII, an Italian who led the church from 1878 to 1903. That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and ...