{"id":3098,"date":"2025-05-09T02:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2025-05-09T03:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T03:03:04","slug":"who-is-the-new-pope-see-pope-leo-xivs-first-appearance-as-head-of-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"Who is the new pope? See Pope Leo XIV&#8217;s first appearance as head of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope Leo XIV, 69, was born in Chicago and attended Villanova University and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago before earning a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.Francesco Sforza\/Vatican Media Handout Via Reuters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-3-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Faithful react to the announcement that U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected by the conclave as new pope, with the name Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4.png 512w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-4-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-5.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-5-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the Unites States delivers the &#8220;Urbi et Orbi&#8221; (to the city and to the world) message from the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-6.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-6-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-7-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-8-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-9.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-9-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States appears on the balcony of St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-11-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People react and wave Vatican flags as white smoke (unseen) signals that cardinals elected a new pope during their conclave in the Vatican on May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-12.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-12-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White smoke rises from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel, indicating that a new pope has been elected at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-13-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crowd celebrates on a roof as they witness white smoke after a new pope is elected at the conclave on May 8, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-14.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-14-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carabinieri take position on the parvis of St Peter&#8217;s basilica before the first appearance of the new Pope, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15.png 660w, https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-15-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swiss Guards and music band enter the parvis of St Peter&#8217;s basilica before the first appearance of the new Pope, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" 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