Pope Leo casts his Midterm Vote…

ROME — Pope Leo XIV cast a mail-in ballot in the U.S. midterm elections, the Vatican confirmed Friday, making the Chicago-born pontiff the first leader of the Catholic Church to vote in the United States.

The Vatican did not say how he voted.

Leo — formerly known as Robert Prevost — “has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so. … In keeping with this long-standing practice of civic participation, he has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago,” the Vatican said.