Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, cast a mail-in ballot in Chicago’s midterm elections weeks after lung surgery; the Vatican did not reveal his choices.

Pope Leo XIV, the Catholic Church's first US-born pontiff, has voted in the United States midterm elections, submitting his mail-in ballot in Chicago, the Vatican confirmed.

The Vatican said the pope voted to express his ‘belief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes’.