(WRIC) — A bill that could have made African American history count as a required social studies credit in Virginia high schools was vetoed last month by ... don’t ask if Latin American ...

He visited with Francis in Vatican City last month, one day before the former ... “Imagine, for the first time in our history having an American pope. Someone who understands American issues.

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago elected pope Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIV He is the first American-born pontiff in Catholic Church history Prevost has roots in both Chicago and Peru ...

The 69-year-old is also history's first American pope. His name was announced after cardinal Mamberti uttered the words 'Habemus papam!' Latin for 'We have a pope!' from the loggia of St. Peter's ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American pope in history, taking the name Leo ... announcement ‘Habemus Papam’ – Latin for ‘We have a Pope’ – from St Peter ...

but he’s also Latin American […] he’s the perfect pontiff for present moment,” Miles Pattenden, Church historian and lecturer at history faculty in Oxford. 67-year-old Craig Burwell from Connecticut ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, became the first American pontiff in history after he was elected ... of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and leader of the Dicastery for ...

Biden added that he was pleased to see an American ... in Latin America. Still, for U.S. Catholics, there “will be enormous pride,” he said. In terms of important days in the history of ...

who passed away last month at age 88. The election of Leo XIV, the 267th pontiff, marks a historic shift, as no American has ever held the papacy in the Church’s 2,000-year history. Prevost, a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the ... was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, a 69 member of the ...

“In my lifetime, the Church has been blessed with a series of popes each uniquely prepared for his particular moment in history ... month, though some reporting suggested his being an American ...

However, that history sits uneasily with the unbroken run of European popes that stretches from the early Middle Ages to the death of Francis last month ... Asian or Latin American, history ...