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For the first time in history, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church is an American.
Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago will succeed Pope Francis and lead the church's 1.4 billion members.
Prevost has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.
NPR's Ruth Sherlock was in St. Peter's Square,
where people from around the world gathered for the announcement of a new pope.
Just incredible variety.
It's amazing walking through the crowd because you hear languages from all over the world.
It's such an international scene.
And then you had people who had brought...
They're small children, tiny babies.
I've met somebody who's had a baby who's just days old,
you know, coming hoping that they would be blessed by the new pope.
Also,