At least in (USA) American news sources, "American" means from the USA. Francis ...

		magneticnorth 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First American pope elected and will be known as P... At least in (USA) American news sources, "American" means from the USA. Francis was the first pope from the Americas. See Wikipedia for deeper discussion of the use of the term in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_(word)