You may have missed the real point. (The Free Press is the new star journalism source. Each week the irrepressible Nellie Bowles writes TGIF, a commentary on the week's events. Here is her explanation:) Pope Bob: A billow of white smoke, and we have a new pope! And he is an American! His name is Robert Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV—and he was born in Chicago before serving as a bishop in Peru. The Vatican chose an American to avoid tariffs, I presume.