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Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.
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Pope Leo XIV, in remarks in 2012 when he was the Augustinian prior general in Chicago, made comments critical of what he called the "homosexual lifestyle" and the role of mass media in promoting acceptance of same-sex relationships that conflicted with Catholic doctrine.
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More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal history.
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Pope Leo XIV's childhood neighbors in suburban Chicago had predicted when he was just a small boy that he would become the first American pontiff, his brother said.
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