AN AMERICAN CARDINAL TO LEAD THE ROMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. Who’s Robert Francis Prevost now Pope Leo XIV as the Pontifex that Excommunicated Freemasonry
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio
The new Pope is Robert Francis Prevost and will be called Leo XIV. A name that takes on great importance given that his predecessor Leo III was the Pope who excommunicated Freemasonry…
He is the first Pontiff from the USA in the history of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church.
He introduced himself by showing great Marian devotion, praising the Madonna of Pompeii whose anniversary is today, May 8, and reciting a Hail Mary live worldwide, thus revealing a footprint closer to that of Latin America where he served for many years than that of the USA where the influence of Evangelical Christians has often overshadowed the cult of the Most Holy Virgin Mary.
Robert Francis Prevost (Chicago, September 14, 1955) is a cardinal, Catholic archbishop and American missionary, from January 30, 2023 to April 21, 2025 prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
He is the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Rome, 9th sovereign of the Vatican City State, primate of Italy, in addition to the other titles proper to the Roman Pontiff, since May 8, 2025. On November 3, 2014, Pope Francis appointed him apostolic administrator of Chiclayo and titular bishop of Sufar.
On the 7th of the same month he took possession of the diocese in the presence of the apostolic nuncio James Patrick Green and the college of consultors. He received episcopal ordination on December 12 in the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Chiclayo from Archbishop James Patrick Green, Apostolic Nuncio to Peru, co-consecrating the Bishop Emeritus of Chiclayo Jesús Moliné Labarte and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Ayacucho Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón.
A Pope who was a Missionary in Latin America
On September 26, 2015, the same pontiff appointed him bishop of that see. In May 2017, he made his ad limina visit.
From March 2018 to January 2023, he was second vice-president of the Peruvian Episcopal Conference. Within the same conference, he was president of the commission for culture and education [and member of the economic council. On April 15, 2020, Pope Francis himself also appointed him apostolic administrator sede vacante of Callao, an office he held until May 26, 2021.
He has been a member of the Congregation for the Clergy since July 13, 2019 and of the Congregation for Bishops since November 21, 2020.
On January 30, 2023, Pope Francis appointed him prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, conferring on him at the same time the title of Archbishop-Bishop Emeritus of Chiclayo; he succeeded Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who resigned upon reaching the age limit. He began to hold both positions on April 12, 2023.
He was a member of the Dicasteries for the Doctrine of the Faith, for the Eastern Churches, for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, for Culture and Education, and of the Section for First Evangelization and the New Particular Churches of the Dicastery for Evangelization, from March 4, 2023, of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts, from the following June 14, and of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, from October 4 of the same year.
On July 9, 2023, at the end of the Angelus, Pope Francis announced his creation as cardinal; in the consistory of September 30, he created him cardinal deacon of Santa Monica. On January 28, 2024, he took possession of the deaconry. On February 6, 2025, Pope Francis established his entry into the order of bishops, assigning him the title of the suburbicarian see of Albano.
On April 21, 2025, he resigned from his curial duties due to the passing of Pope Francis.
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