Can American Pope Help Bridge Divide?
Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955, has been elected the first American pope of the Catholic Church. He chose the name Leo XIV in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who served in the Gilded Age from 1878 to 1903. Popularly known as the "Social Pope" and the "Pope of the Workers," that pope championed workers' rights during the first Industrial Revolut…
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