Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year

Sisters Isabel Fitzgerald, 11, Vivian Fitzgerald, 8, and Lucia Fitzgerald, 5, from Chicago, stand inside St. Mary of the Assumption Parish, where Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost of the United States, used to attend while growing up,

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American-born pope on May 8. Here's how local Catholics reacted to the news.