While there’s plenty of room for views to shift as Pope Leo’s agenda becomes clear, people are watching how the first American-born leader of the

According to Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the vicar general of Rome, there are 8,020 priests and deacons currently in the diocese, of which 809 are permanent Rome diocesan priests.

Pope Leo's reviews among the American public are similar to Pope Francis' at the beginning of his papacy, researchers said.