Local clergy react to Pope Leo XIV’s election
The Rev. Todd Kreitinger, of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Minot, said he wasn’t free to follow the proceedings as Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church as he was busy with his ministries. In fact, he hadn’t even learned the name of the new pope until he was in the middle of Mass on Thursday. “I had to ask from the ambo, the pulpit, ‘Do we have a new holy father? What’s his name?’ so I could now say his name in the Eucharistic prayer,” Kreitinger said. “They nodded and someone said ‘Leo,’ so I was able to include ...