9 May 2025

Catholic churches across NZ celebrate new Pope Leo

From Checkpoint, 5:26 pm on 9 May 2025

Catholic churches across New Zealand are celebrating the new pope today, by holding mass and praying for him for the first time. The first American to hold the post, Chicago-born Robert Prevost, was elected after four rounds of voting, and will be known as Pope Leo the fourteenth. Alexa Cook reports.