CW39 Exclusive: Local man’s surprise connection to Pope Leo XIV

HOUSTON (KIAH) — The Campus Ministries office at the University of St. Thomas in Midtown doubled as a Conclave watch party on Wednesday as they watched the selection of the new pope.

Alyssa Bursch, a freshman on that campus in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, spent the last three hours she had before a final exam studying there while also keeping an eye on a screen at the front of the room that carried a live video stream from Vatican City…

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