After decades of philanthropy following the success of Microsoft, Bill Gates is winding down his namessake charity. What's he going to do next?

Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian friar ever to be selected to lead the Catholic Church. Raised in Chicago, where he was known as Robert Prevost, he graduated from Villanova University.

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Michael Murphy, director of the Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University in Chicago, reflects on the new pope. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was born in Chicago and was elevated to pope by the college of cardinals on Thursday.

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Here & Now ‘s Scott Tong speaks with National Catholic Reporter executive editor James Grimaldi about the new Pope elected today by cardinals voting in their second ballot. This article was originally ...