{"id":24029,"date":"2025-05-07T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-first-american-pope-cardinal-robert-prevosts-name-comes-up-as-a-potential-successor-to-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:56:53","slug":"a-first-american-pope-cardinal-robert-prevosts-name-comes-up-as-a-potential-successor-to-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/a-first-american-pope-cardinal-robert-prevosts-name-comes-up-as-a-potential-successor-to-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"A first American pope? Cardinal Robert Prevost&#8217;s name comes up as a potential successor to Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Vatican City \u2014<\/em>\u00a0Of the 266 popes who have led the Catholic Church, not one of them has been from the United States. While the relative youth of the nation means fewer than 20 of those men served after the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776, one prominent U.S. bishop has a possible explanation for the lack of an American leader of the world&#8217;s Catholics up until now.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona\u2013Rochester in Minnesota,  was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White  House Commission on Religious Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>This week, however, he&#8217;s at the Vatican with hundreds of other prelates as the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/conclave-2025-to-pick-new-pope-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cardinal electors gather<\/a><\/span> for the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/conclave-2025-when-will-cardinals-replace-pope-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">conclave<\/a><\/span> to choose <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/who-will-be-the-next-pope-list-of-possible-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a new pontiff<\/a><\/span> to succeed Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Barron has spent days speaking with the cardinals \u2014 including the 133 cardinal electors tasked with <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cbs-news-poll-us-catholics-look-to-next-pope\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">electing the new pope<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 as they try to figure out among themselves who is best to lead the church next.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: &#8216;Look, until America goes into political decline, there won&#8217;t be an American pope.&#8217; And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don&#8217;t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there&#8217;s some truth to that, that we&#8217;re such a superpower and so dominant, they don&#8217;t wanna give us, also, control over the church.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That said, one American name has popped up repeatedly amid the gossip over leading contenders for the role of pontiff: Cardinal Robert Prevost.<\/p>\n<p>He is undoubtedly qualified, as the only clear qualifications for the role of pontiff are that candidates be male and Roman Catholic. But emerging on top, with the necessary backing of just over two-thirds of the voting cardinal electors, will require far more than just eligibility.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/07\/20a71db9-c449-4899-b166-f5671098ef0a\/thumbnail\/620x413g3\/636da9c95a00f288a8b96ec7d951dc35\/gettyimages-2203130084.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465#\" alt=\"Pope Francis Remains In Hospital Receiving Treatment For Respiratory Illness \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/07\/20a71db9-c449-4899-b166-f5671098ef0a\/thumbnail\/620x413g3\/636da9c95a00f288a8b96ec7d951dc35\/gettyimages-2203130084.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/07\/20a71db9-c449-4899-b166-f5671098ef0a\/thumbnail\/1240x826g3\/244083ea79129f96b35659d057377041\/gettyimages-2203130084.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost leads rosary prayers for the health of Pope Francis in St Peter&#8217;s Square on March 3, 2025 in Vatican City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Getty<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Originally from Chicago, Prevost is the head of the church&#8217;s Dicastery for Bishops. The powerful position means he oversees the selection of new bishops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For any cardinal electors who may be turned off by Prevost&#8217;s American nationality, it&#8217;s not his only one. He&#8217;s a dual citizen, holding nationality in both the U.S. and Peru, where he served for many years.<\/p>\n<p>While Prevost is seen overall as a centrist, on some key social issues he&#8217;s viewed as progressive. He has long embraced marginalized groups, a lot like Francis, who championed migrants and the poor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, also like Pope Francis, the Illinois native opposes ordaining women as deacons, for instance, so on that point he&#8217;s seen as conservative on church doctrine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/tucker-reals\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Tucker  Reals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<div class=\"component__heading-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"component__title\">Pope Francis &amp; 2025 Papal Conclave<\/h3>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/pope-francis\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--lg\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n              More<br \/>\n              <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"icon__caret-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                <use xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"\/>\n              <\/svg><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/pope-francis\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--sm\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n            More<br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"icon__caret-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/chris-livesay\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Chris  Livesay<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__image\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/chris-livesay\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n              <span class=\"img \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/abbdde8f-b051-45c5-b01c-a0cf7bea35a3\/thumbnail\/80x80\/a00bee32417db0f33ab87eaf578f275b\/headshot-600-chris-livesay.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465#\" alt=\"headshot-600-chris-livesay.jpg \" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/abbdde8f-b051-45c5-b01c-a0cf7bea35a3\/thumbnail\/80x80\/a00bee32417db0f33ab87eaf578f275b\/headshot-600-chris-livesay.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/abbdde8f-b051-45c5-b01c-a0cf7bea35a3\/thumbnail\/160x160\/ba6ddff3bf7c7f8bc63ed2cf159b9199\/headshot-600-chris-livesay.jpg?v=e61856d8e666e7ed5709adc37bb2d465 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Chris Livesay is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in Rome.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-pope-could-it-be-american-cardinal-robert-prevost\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City \u2014\u00a0Of the 266 popes who have led the Catholic Church, not one of them has been from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2601,6844,2600,568,2520],"class_list":["post-24029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-catholic-church","tag-papal-conclave","tag-pope","tag-pope-francis","tag-vatican-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A first American pope? 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