“Habemus Papam”, that is, “We have a Pope” also reports the magazine Time In his online edition for 69 -year -old Robert Francis Prevost, the first American head of the Roman Catholic Church, who chose the name Leo the 14th.
After a few days of waiting, something not very common in such procedures in the Vatican, notes Time columnist Aryn Baker, American cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was announced as the 267th 1.4 -billion leader in the world, now having the name of Pope Leo the 14th.
«Annuntio Vobis Gaudium Magnum. Habemus Papam (ed. I announce a great joy. We have a Pope“, Said the French Cardinal Dominic Mabertias he presented the man who will succeed the beloved Pope Franciswho died on April 21 at the age of 88.
“It will be named Leo the 14th,” he said in Latin under the ecstatic cheers of the crowd that had gathered in St. Peter’s Square since white smoke came out of the chimney over the Sistine Hat, where the election took place just over an hour ago.
The newly ordained Pope Leo Id ‘went up to the balcony dressed in a white stroke, which covered a red cape adorned with Ermina, and was dressed in a golden embroidered belt. He joined his hands in prayer and smiled as the crowd was calling his name and “Viva la papa!”
«Peace to all of you“, He said with an Italian accent. “To all people, wherever they are, to all the people of the earth, peace with you».
He spoke briefly about his predecessor, saying: ‘May all of us build bridges with dialogue, thank you Pope Francis».
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In his first public speech, the new Pontiff also thanked the Cardinalians’ colleagues and then spoke for a while in Spanish to thank his diocese in Peruwhere he served for several decades.
He completed with his first blessing “City and the World“, A formal address to the city of Rome and the world, indicating the beginning of his papacy.
At the end of prayer, the crowd that had gathered in St. Peter’s Square It was rushing flags from dozens of countries, including some American ones.
Leo is the first Pope from the United States And just the second from the American continent, after the late Pope Francis, who was from Argentina.
US President Donald Trump, who attended the funeral of Pope Francis last month, congratulated Pope Leo with a post on the Truth Social platform.
“It is a great honor to realize that he is the first American Pope,” Trump wrote. “What emotion and great honor for our country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo ‘. It will be a very important moment. “