Most Catholics will be well aware of where they were when it was announced that Pope Leo XIV would be the first American pope.

Detroit Archbishop Edward J. Weisenburger will remember that he was flying Delta. Coach, to be more precise.

“We were taxiing, and I was in coach and squeezed in next to someone next to me, and just as soon as I turned off the airplane setting, my phone began to go, ‘Beep, beep, beep,’ and I went straight to a live feed and I heard the actual words, ‘Habemus papam,’” Archbishop Weisenburger said during a press conference Thursday afternoon at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament following the news of the election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost as the 267th pope.

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