BATON ROUGE — History was made Thursday as Pope Leo XIV became the first American-born pontiff elected to lead the Catholic Church.
The pontiff, whose name is Robert Prevost and was born in Chicago, has family ties to Louisiana. Pope Leo spent most of his adulthood in South America, with his ministry in Peru.
Bishop Michael Duca of the Baton Rouge Diocese said it’s as if God shaped Pope Leo’s life for this moment…