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Pope Leo XIV: Robert Prevost elected to lead the Catholic Church

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The world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics have a new leader. Robert Francis Prevost is the first US-born pontiff and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. It took 133 cardinals two days to elect the 267th pope - in what is one of the shortest conclaves in history.

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