The news says that Robert Cardinal Prevost was elected by the papal conclave, and has chosen the name Leo XIV. The new pope was born in Chicago, making him, quite unexpectedly, the first person born in the United States to become pope, but he has spent most of his ecclesiastical career in Peru, in service to the Order of St. Augustine (for whom he was prior general for a while). It's hard to guess what his tenure will bring; his career for the most part hasn't been particularly notable (he seems to be a relatively quiet person), and he's mostly been a bit-of-everything bureaucrat, but perhaps that was what favored him in the voting.
