American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the 267th pontiff of the global Catholic Church, taking the name of Pope Leo XIV. The new pontiff, the first from the U.S. in Christianity’s 2,000-year history, is expected to be a unifying figure after years of fractious ideological tensions between the progressive and conservative wings of the Catholic Church. 📷: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters #Pope #PopeLeoXIV #TheVatican #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #news #wsj