A first American pope? Cardinal Robert Prevost's name comes up as a potential successor to Pope Francis

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A first American pope? Cardinal Robert Prevost's name comes up as a potential successor to Pope Francis

Vatican City — Of the 266 popes who have led the Catholic Church, not one of them has been from the United States. While the relative youth of the nation means fewer than 20 of those men served after the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776, one prominent U.S. bishop has a possible explanation for the lack of an American leader of the world's Catholics up until now.Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota, was appointed less than a week ago by President Trump to the new White House Commission on Religious Liberty.This week, however, he's at the ..