Robert Francis Prevost has been elected Pope Leo XIV—why does this matter to the worlds of art and heritage?

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The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and architecture treasures of the Vatican—has publicly supported his predecessor Pope Francis’s lead on climate change