On May 8th 2025, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope taking the name Leo XIV. Leo XIV becomes the first pope from the US and the first Augustinian to hold the office. At 19.15, Robert Prevost, a sixty-nine-year-old Augustinian friar from Chicago, stepped out onto the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica to make his first address as pope. Comments are closed.
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My name is David Lown and I am an art historian from Cambridge, England. Since 2001 I have lived in Italy, where I run private walking tours of Rome.
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