(8 May 2025)
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Vatican City, Vatican – 8 May 2025
1. Various people cheering, after seeing white smoke, taking photos and videos
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Annamaria Alessandrini, Italian faithful:
“It is an exciting moment, I did not expect it and on this sunny day I feel a great energy in this square. I hope he will be the great successor of Pope Francis."
3. Various people cheering, looking at the white smoke, taking photos and videos
4. Woman on a man’s shoulders making a video
5. Woman cheering
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Father Adrian Gaborn, Romanian priest living in Italy:
“It’s extraordinary, I’m from Ferrara (in Italy), I left this morning and I didn’t expect an election so soon but I almost felt (that it could happen). Together with my priest friend we came to experience this historic moment, to feel that we have a shepherd again who accompanies and guides us.”
7. Man taking a video
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Surry Orduz, faithful from Colombia:
“I feel lucky because we are on a journey and it was chance that we are here today and today we could experience this historic moment and for this, (I feel) lucky.”
9. Pilgrims in St Peter’s Square
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Michela Bon, Italian faithful:
“For me it is the first time I have seen this happen and I am really very happy. Hopefully he will be a good pope like Pope Francis.”
11. Pilgrims in St Peter’s Square
STORYLINE:
Faithful on Thursday expressed their delight as white smoke flowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating that cardinals had picked a successor to the late Pope Francis.
The cardinals named Robert Prevost of the United States as head of the Catholic church and the American will take the papal name of Leo XIV.
Faithful Annamaria Alessandrin said it has been an "exciting moment" to witness the white smoke and expressed her hope that the new pontiff would be a "great successor" of Pope Francis.
Prevost had been a leading candidate except for his nationality.
There had long been a taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.
But Prevost, a Chicago native, was seemingly eligible also because he’s a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.
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