WASHINGTON–Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope.
Prevost, 69, from Chicago, is the first ever pope from the United States. He will now be known as Pope Leo XIV.
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Irene Oh (Koukios), Associate Professor and Chairperson of the GW Department of Religion, teaches courses in religious ethics. From 2009-2020, Irene directed the Peace Studies program. She currently co-edits the Journal of Religious Ethics. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, Religion), the University of Chicago (MA, Divinity), and the University of Virginia (PhD, Theology, Ethics, and Culture). She is the author of The Rights of God: Islam, Human Rights, and Comparative Ethics (Georgetown 2007) and is working on a book about the ethics of motherhood.
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