One unexpected feature in the flurry of interest surrounding recently elected Pope Leo XIV has caught the attention of the internet community.

It’s the religious leader’s undergraduate degree, not his age or ethnicity.

Admirers have characterised the 69-year-old Pontiff, who was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago, as an unusual fusion of traditional devotion and contemporary sensibility.

He is very different from the more conventional papal image, and the Italian press has dubbed him the ‘Latin Yankee’. Continues…