Speakers blasted “Born in the U.S.A. and ”American Pie" as six cardinal electors from the United States celebrated the first U.S. pope a day after Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV.

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope