Tennessee U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03) led a bipartisan letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) this week requesting that Pope Leo XIV be formally invited to address a Joint Session of Congress.
On May 8, Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied at Villanova University, was elected as the first U.S.-born pontiff and chose to take the name Pope Leo XIV.
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