Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to lift up “ordinary people.”
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Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to lift up “ordinary people.”