The Vatican City (AP)-Robert Bouvost, the missioner who spent his career in Peru and took over the strong bishops’ office in the Vatican, the first Pope of the United States in the history of the 2000-year Catholic Church.
Prevost, a 69 -year -old member of the Augustinian religious system, got the name Leo XIV.
In his first words as a successor from Pope Francis, he was pronounced from Saint Peter Basilica, Liu said, “Peace be upon you”, and stressed the message of peace, dialogue and missionary preaching. He was wearing the traditional red head of the Babylon – a head avoided by Francis in his election in 2013.
Prevost was a pioneering candidate for the Babylon, but there have been a long time ago of taboos against the American Pope, given the geopolitical power in the country that was already used in the secular field. But Prevost, a citizen of Chicago, was apparently eligible because he was a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as a bishop.
It is clear that Pope Francis was watching him on the Preriest and saw him in many ways and his heir. Penthost brought to the Vatican in 2023 to be a strong president of the office that is subject to the nominations of the bishop from all over the world, and it is one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. In January, he raised it to the ranks of the major Cardinals. As a result, Prevost had a prominent position in the Conclave that there were a few other Cardinals.
The crowd erupted in Saint Peter’s Square in chants when the white smoke was poured from the Sistine Church on the second day of the range. Make the priests a sign of the cross and cried the nuns while the crowd shouted “Viva Il Papa!”
He waving flags from all over the world, and waited tens of thousands of people to find out who won and shocked when she appeared an hour later, Cardinal’s deacon appeared on Loggia and said “Habemus Papam!” He announced that the winner was Prevost.
Talk to the crowd in Italian and Spanish, but not English.
The last Pope who took the name of Liu is Liu XIII, the Italian who led the church from 1878 to 1903. Leo relieved the position of the church’s confrontation towards modernity, especially science and politics and laying the basis for modern Catholic social thought, the most famous with Rirum Rairum 1891, which was dealing with workers’ rights.
Eyes on the chimney
Earlier on Thursday, large school groups joined a mixture of humanity pending the result in St. Peter Square. They have mixed with the people participating in the Hajj in the Holy Year pre -designed and journalists from all over the world who descended to Rome to document the elections.
“Waiting is great!” Priece Barlanti, Romanian, said.
Pedro Diet, 22, a financial student from Argentina, said that he visited his family Rome during the Argentine Pontefat, and they were hoping to have a new door in the form of Francis.
“Francis has achieved well in opening the church to the outside world, but on other fronts, he may not do enough. We’ll see whether the next will be able to do more,” said Dit from the square.
Reverend Jean -Dominic Bugajag, Franciscan monk, was the most critical of Francis. He said that if he is in the Sistin Church, he will vote for the Cardinal Perbatista Bizabala, Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, who works on many papal competitors lists.
“He has clear ideas, not a lot of ideology. He is a direct, intelligent and respectful man,” said Bugagag from the square. “Most of all, it’s graceful.”
Some Cardinals said they expect a short delivery.
Throughout most of the last century, Conclave needed between three and 14 ballot cards to find the Pope. John Paul I – the Pope who ruled for 33 days in 1978 – was elected in the fourth ballot. His successor, John Paul II, needed eight. Francis was elected fifth in 2013.
Conclave process
The Cardinals opened the secret rituals that date back on Wednesday afternoon, and participated in more theatrical rituals than Hollywood could create. The bright red cassels, the Swiss guards who stand on the attention, and the ancient Latin chants and the closed right are closed from the doors of the Sistin Church to close the Cardinals from the outside world.
Cardinal Petro Parolin, 70 -year -old Foreign Minister during the reign of Francis, who was considered a pioneering competitor as Pope, led the procedures as the oldest Kardinal under the age of 80, qualified to participate.
The vote follows a strict dance, dictated by the Church Law.
All Cardinal writes his choice on a piece of paper engraved with the phrase “Eligo in Summen Pontificem” – “I am a supreme cable team.” They approach the altar one after another and say: “I pray as my view, Christ, the Lord who will be a judge, that my vote gives the person who, before God, must be elected.”
The folded ballot is placed on a round dish and tends to a silver jar and gold. Once the photography is done, the ballotard is opened one by three with three different “travelers”, and a cruise was randomly chosen who write the names and read them loudly.
The fluctuations, whose work is examined by other Cardinals called reviews, adds the results of each round of voting and write it on a separate paper, which is preserved in the papal archive.
While the volatile reads every name, each poll is penetrated with a needle through the word “eligo”. Then all the polling cards are linked to the thread, the package is set aside and burned in the church stove with a chemical to produce smoke.
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Giada Zambano, Hylena Alves and Vaissa Jira contributed to this report.
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