An American Pope: Leo XIV!

Leo XIV, the Pope of the Holy See.

The Holy See of the Vatican Church and State has elected a new Papel.

American cardinal is chosen as the Pope.

POPE LEO XIV.

A secretative council of cardinals elected [formerly] Robert Prevost, 69 as the first United States citizen to be the leader of the Catholic church.

Leo may copy the theories and teachings of Pope Francis.

He already got President Donald J. Trump and MAGAland outraged.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Leo dedicated his early clerical career to the Order of Saint Augustine. His service included extensive work in Peru from 1985 to 1986 and 1988 to 1998, where he served as a parish pastor, diocesan official, seminary teacher, and administrator. Elected Prior General of the Order of Saint Augustine from 2001 to 2013, he later returned to Peru as Bishop of Chiclayo (2015–2023). In 2023, Pope Francis appointed him Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and the president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and created him a cardinal the same year. These roles elevated his prominence as a papal candidate.

Leo XIV is the first American pope, the first Peruvian pope, and the second pope from the Americas. He is the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the seventh from orders following the Rule of St. Augustine.

He spent his childhood and adolescence with his family and studied first at the Minor Seminary of the Augustinian Fathers and then at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where in 1977 he earned a Degree in Mathematics and also studied Philosophy. 

On September 1 of the same year, Prevost entered the novitiate of the Order of Saint Augustine (O.S.A.) in Saint Louis, in the Province of Our Lady of Good Counsel of Chicago, and made his first profession on September 2, 1978. On August 29, 1981, he made his solemn vows.

The future Pontiff received his theological education at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. At the age of 27, he was sent by his superiors to Rome to study Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). 

In Rome, he was ordained a priest on June 19, 1982, at the Augustinian College of Saint Monica by Archbishop Jean Jadot, then pro-president of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, which later became the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and then the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.

Prevost obtained his licentiate in 1984 and the following year, while preparing his doctoral thesis, was sent to the Augustinian mission in Chulucanas, Piura, Peru (1985–1986). In 1987, he defended his doctoral thesis on "The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of Saint Augustine" and was appointed vocation director and missions director of the Augustinian Province of “Mother of Good Counsel” in Olympia Fields, Illinois (USA).

Hopefully, I am confident he will address the issues with Israel and India.

As we are speaking right now, Israel is launching a full-scale invasion of Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Israel will do it worst to seize land for its colonialism. Russia is still trying to seize land in Ukraine despite the Trump administration trying to propose a ceasefire. There are tensions between India and Pakistan, with India launching a full scale invasion in the Kashmir region.

And of course, Trump.

Leo, you have a lot of work to do.