Religious leaders and experts react to Pope Leo XIV serving as head of the Catholic Church

BATON ROUGE — History was made Thursday as Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff elected to lead the Catholic Church.The pontiff, whose name is Robert Prevost and was born in Chicago, has family ties to Louisiana. Pope Leo spent most of his adulthood in South America, with his ministry in Peru.Bishop Michael Duca of the Baton Rouge Diocese said it's as if God shaped Pope Leo's life for this moment.“He has that foundation in the United States, but he has the mindset t