Just a few weeks ago, Robert Francis Prevost was a relatively low-profile cardinal from Chicago. But on May 8, the 69-year-old stunned the world when he emerged from the papal conclave as the new leader of the Catholic Church — now known as Pope Leo XIV. The workers Pope?
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