When Cardinal Robert Prevost was introduced to the world this week as the new pope, he was introduced by a new name: Pope Leo XIV.
As with the names chosen by other pontiffs over the centuries, the choice of this name may offer some insight into the priorities that the incoming pope will have in his papacy.
The previous Pope Leo – Leo XIII, whose pontificate stretched from 1878 to 1903 – was a massive figure in the history of modern Catholicism, both worldwide and specifically in the United States.
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