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Washington — President Trump celebrated the predetermination of the archetypal U.S.-born pope, calling it a "Great Honor" that Robert Francis Prevost, who chose Leo XIV arsenic his papal name, was selected Thursday arsenic the archetypal pontiff to hail from the U.S.
"Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was conscionable named Pope," Mr. Trump said successful a station connected Truth Social. "It is specified an grant to recognize that helium is the archetypal American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look guardant to gathering Pope Leo XIV. It volition beryllium a precise meaningful moment!"
Prevost, 69 was born successful Chicago and attended Villanova University earlier becoming a missionary successful Peru.
He was elected and accepted his destiny arsenic the adjacent Bishop of Rome, person of the world's 1.4 cardinal Catholics earlier Thursday.
The U.S. has the fourth-largest Catholic population, aft Brazil, Mexico and the Philippines.
The late Francis I was the archetypal pope calved successful the Western Hemisphere, arsenic a autochthonal of Buenos Aires.
Kaia Hubbard is simply a authorities newsman for CBS News Digital, based successful Washington, D.C.
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