Pope Leo XIV is the primary North American to steer the Catholic Church. But he was not thought of to be within the prime 10 doubtless candidates to succeed Pope Francis, partially as a result of his nationality.
There had been an assumption that an American pope would imply an excessive amount of energy concentrated on the earth’s most dominant superpower.
So why did the conclave choose Cardinal Robert Prevost – and what does it imply for the long run course of the Catholic Church?
To talk about this on immediately’s Sky News Daily with Niall Paterson are Barbara Serra, who has been masking the conclave for Sky News, and Father Thomas Massaro from New York’s Fordham University.
Producer: Natalie Ktena
Editor: Wendy Parker
