Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. But he's been Deffenbaugh's leading light for quite some time already. Before his papacy, Prevost was the prior general of ...

Prevost, 69, was elected Thursday to be the pontiff to succeed Pope Francis, choosing the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American pope in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history.