PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 9 -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Q&A: The first American pope Melissa Wilde of the Department of Sociology, whose research has led her to the Vatican Secret Archive, among other places, discusses the new Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, and the implications for the Roman Catholic Church. elissa Wilde, a Penn sociologist and scholar of religious change, told media before the conclave to s  more