President Donald Trump celebrated the news that the college of cardinals elected its first American pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, calling the news "a Great Honor for our Country." "Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope," Trump wrote. "It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope.
What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country.
I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV.
It will be a very meaningful moment!" Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1955.
