Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost elected as new Pope

The Catholic Church has elected American Robert Prevost, 69, as its new leader.

He is the first American and the first native-English speaker to be named Pope but also speaks Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese and can read Latin and German. He has taken the name Leo.

Prevost headed the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, which is the office tasked with bishop appointments around the world.

“We are often worried about teaching doctrine, but we risk forgetting
that our first duty is to communicate the beauty and joy of knowing
Jesus,” Prevost, in one of his few interviews, told Vatican News.

The publication said Prevost brings to the table pastoral experience in the peripheries with
expertise in navigating the complexities of the church’s central
governance.

This article was written by Adam Button at www.forexlive.com.