Pope Leo XIV - world reacts
Digest more
Top News
Overview
Impacts
41m
Atlanta Black Star on MSN‘The Pope Got Some Black In Him’: MAGA Erupts at Old Leo XIV Tweets Criticizing Donald Trump as Fans Refer to His Haitian RootsIt seems that Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, has previously condemned President Donald Trump’s border policies
Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.
The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including a “loving care for the least and the rejected.”
The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that taxes citizens living abroad. Thus, thanks to his American passport, the 69-year-old Chicago-born pope, known until last week as Robert Prevost, will likely need to file a tax return to the U.S. government just like any other citizen, experts told Fortune.
The 73-year-old Florida man appears to be a staunch Trump supporter who uses his Facebook account to go on the attack.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.