By Emmanuel Kwada White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney on May 8, 2025, heralding the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American from Chicago, as Pope Leo XIV, the 267th pontiff and the first U.S.-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Nearly 45,000 faithful in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers […]Continue Reading