A newspaper vendor arranges The Standard (L) and Daily Nation (R) newspapers with front pages bearing headlines and images announcing the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, in downtown Nairobi, on May 9, 2025. Robert Francis Prevost was on May 8, 2025 elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)