Trust fall; Mule mail; Greene at the gills; Beshear not bashful; The _____ Nate Moore America’s obsession — or at least the American media’s obsession — with the election process that gave the world Pope Leo XIV has been intense.

A Newsmax reporter had asked the question of Pope Leo at the pontiff's audience with journalists in the Vatican on Monday. Leo is the first-ever pope born in the U.S. His comments on social media around immigration in particular have caught attention, and raise the possibility future clashes with the Trump Administration.

On "This Week," Cardinal Cupich said Pope Leo XIV may call for changes to the United States immigration system.

THE CARDINALS ELECTING A NEW POPE THURSDAY. MOMENTS LATER, FORMER CARDINAL ROBERT PRÉVOST EMERGING AS POPE LEO THE 14TH. THE 69 YEAR OLD IS THE FIRST AMERICAN POPE HERE IN CHICAGO. I TALKED WITH FATHER ANDREW AT HOLY NAME CATHEDRAL ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH,

Pope Leo XIV is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we know so far.

Congressman Brendan Boyle on how the new pope affects American politics, on issues both in line and at odds with the Trump administration

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, who studied in Chicago, said in an interview Friday.

It would certainly be a dramatic shift from the world’s first Latin American and first Jesuit ... a historian of the Catholic Church at Oxford University, tells TIME. “It’s very doubtful ...