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Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been elected the new pope and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Robert Prevost ... He takes the papal name Leo XIV, and succeeds Pope Francis, who had led the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...

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