Mississippi
‘I couldn’t believe it’: Mississippi Catholics react to first American pope
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers, priests made the sign of the cross and nuns wept as the crowd […]