THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE STORY BY DAVE HINTON
ABOVE: Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter’s Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on Thursday.
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The Rev. Patrick O’Neal “never thought I’d live to see someone who was born in Chicago be a successor to St. Peter.”
Shortly after white smoke began emerging from the Sistine Chapel came the Thursday announcement that Catholics near and far didn’t see coming: Cardinal Robert Prevost — who’ll be known as Pope Leo XIV — had been selected to succeed Pope Francis.
Never before in the Catholic church’s 2,000-year history had a pope been selected from the United States, let alone from Illinois.
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