There were seagulls loitering by the tin chimney at the Vatican as it billowed white smoke heralding the election of Pope Leo XIV the first all-American pope, evocative of land ahoy that seagulls used to bring seafarers as they crossed the Atlantic to the Americas in the early days of its discovery by Europeans.
The election of Robert Prevost was a very astute choice by the Papal Conclave. He is
