Former presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama also offered their congratulations to the new pope. “May God bless Pope Leo XIV of Illinois,” Biden, a Catholic, wrote on X. “Jill and I ...

President Donald Trump embraced Robert Prevost’s election as the Catholic Church ... President JD Vance being circulated after his election, Vance shared his own congratulations.

On Monday, the anniversary of Pope Francis being elevated to the papacy, the United States offered its congratulations ... Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church," said U.S. Secretary ...

Blackmon, the director of liturgy and music at St. Joseph's Catholic Church here in Huntsville ... ministered to African-Americans being imported to the New World as slaves, baptizing more ...