Chicago’s St Rita celebrates Pope Leo’s election

The new pope Leo XIV an Augustinian priest.
Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
He is a Chicago area native and has many connections to St. Rita — an Augustinian High School — on Chicago’s South Side.
There was a sense of excitement Thursday that a son of the South Side is now the leader of the worldwide catholic faith.