Fr. Kyle Doustou appeared on ARC Maine again this morning to comment on the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States.

“This is huge, the impossible has been done!.” Fr. Doustou said, “Everybody said going into this conclave, even though we have some very good American cardinals who would have made great popes, that it would have been impossible for us to have a pope from the United States.”

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