became the first Augustinian and American-born pope. Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. But he's been Deffenbaugh's leading light for quite some time already.

The name of Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — appeared in The Times on three occasions when the future leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics was growing up just across the state line ...

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