About two months after Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal, became Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City, he put in a call to his bank back home, a close friend, the Rev. Tom McCarthy, told a gathering of Catholics in Naperville, Ill., last week.

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from America, is getting high marks from Catholics as his tenure hits the one-year mark amid clashes with Donald Trump.

Both priests were appointed by Pope Leo XIV as auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Washington May 1, 2026. (OSV News composite image/photos courtesy Archdiocese of Washington) Pope Leo XIV has appointed multiple new bishops to lead several dioceses around the United States,