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Pope Leo XIV spent formative years at Immaculate Conception/St. Henry's Church on Lafayette Avenue in St. Louis.
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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV lived in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. He was in a parish near what is today the medical campus of St. Louis University
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The background image shows blocks cleared of homes. In the foreground, a sign for U.S. Highway 71, and another that says "Future Bruce R. Watkins Drive."
Bruce R. Watkins Drive took three decades to build, and resulted in the destruction of 2,000 homes and the displacement of thousands of Black residents. A new episode of A People's History of Kansas City explores.