After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV and the first pontiff from the United States, an image spread across social media that claimed to show a New York Times headline saying he helped establish an autonomous zone for demonstrators protesting police brutality in 2020 in Seattle,

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the 267th pontiff of the global Catholic Church, taking the name of Pope Leo XIV.

"I knew they were not going to like that.” Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in Dolton, IL, had been listed for $199,000; however, its owner delisted it shortly after conclave. The occasion was a splashy trade deal with Britain,

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor.