President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign executive orders later, while the White House can expect questions on the election of the first ever American pope. President Trump's executive actions will likely continue to reflect his administration's priorities,

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to answer a question about Pope Leo XIV's previous criticism of Donald Trump.

Elected Thursday as the Catholic Church's first global leader to hail from the United States, Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics — a realm not entirely unknown to the Chicago-born priest,