Plus: Pride Month retreat | Thursday, May 08, 2025
 
Axios View in browser
 
PRESENTED BY AMAZON
 
Axios PM
By Mike Allen · May 08, 2025

Good Thursday afternoon. Today's newsletter, edited by Sam Baker, is 471 words, a 2-min. read. Thanks to Carlos Cunha for copy editing.

 
 
1 big thing: Pope Leo XIV
 
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV stands on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica for the first time after his election. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was elected as the 267th leader of the Catholic Church — the first-ever American pope.

  • "Peace be with you all," Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — said as he addressed the crowd gathered outside St. Peter's Basilica today.