Trump’s pope? Here’s what Leo XIV’s election says about US power

With views spanning the political spectrum, the new pontiff may frustrate culture warriors on both sides of the Atlantic

For the first pope in history from the United States, only his citizenship, place of birth – Chicago – and nickname are actually American. The faithful call him Father Bob, but not in English, which had no place in his first address to believers from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. The new Pope Leo XIV spoke in Italian and Spanish ...