Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics. It's a realm not entirely unknown to the Chicago-born priest.

Leo, the first American to be elected pope in the history of the church, has been critical of Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s stances on immigration in social media posts that resurfaced on Thursday. However, Trump did not hurl insults at the religious leader in his initial statements about the new pope.