Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born missionary with deep ties to Latin America, has been elected Pope Leo XIV—making history as the first American to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost becoming Pope Leo XIV
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00:00My reaction was, an American. Wow. And I know him. Wow. That was my reaction. And it took,
00:29I have to say, sitting on that plane, it took me a little while for it to sink in and kind of
00:36internalize that reality. And gratitude to Almighty God for giving us just a wonderful
00:43man of God, a man of faith, a man of the world as our Pope.
00:59He attended the parroquia here and was responsible for the studies of the young people.
01:14The novices and the professors.
01:16Yes, he was responsible for the studies and he attended everything very well.
01:20It's the moment that he will have. We are sure that he will do it very well,
01:25like he did here in our parroquia. When he arrived, we almost didn't have anything.
01:29It was only walls and we didn't have anything else.
01:33You have the, the identity of, of the United States and the education and, and the lived
01:57experience here, but you also always have your foot and the rest of your heart in Latin America
02:04and in Spain for your ancestors. And so we're very global people. And, and I feel that, um,
02:13that's who he is.
02:22A tutti voi, fratelli e sorelle, di Roma, d'Italia, di tutto il mondo,
02:29vogliamo essere una chiesa sinodale, una chiesa che cammina, una chiesa che cerca sempre la pace,
02:38cerca sempre la carità, cerca sempre di essere vicino, specialmente a coloro che soffrono.
02:47What greater honor could there be that we were a little bit surprised,
02:52but very happy. It was just a great, absolutely great honor.
02:56Fr. Franciscus Cardinalis Prevost, spondio vovio aciuro, sigmedeus adiuveno.
03:05Doviamo cercare insieme come essere una chiesa missionaria, una chiesa che costruisce i ponti,
03:21il dialogo, sempre aperta a ricevere come questa piazza con le braccia aperte a tutti, tutti coloro che hanno bisogno
03:31della nostra carità, la nostra presenza, il dialogo, l'amore.
03:36Overe.