(8 May 2025)
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Vatican City – 08 May 2025
1. Wide of St. Peter’s Square as Cardinal Robert Prevost is announced as new Pope
2. People filming with phones and cheering
3. Mid of U.S. citizen Andrea Gallardo wearing an American flag in St. Peter’s Square
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Gallardo, U.S. citizen from Texas:
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"Well I’m just hoping that the new pope can help steer us in a good direction, in terms of politics. You know, right now it’s very complicated."
5. Close of U.S. flag
6. Mid of woman wearing an American flag
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jack Reidenbach, Student from Philadelphia:
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"I think it’s a win for America overall. I think that will spread a strong message of good throughout North America and beyond, and hopefully work with some popular world leaders to spread a strong message across the world."
8. Wide of crowd shouting (Italian) "Long live the Pope" as an American flag is waved
9. Wide of crowd
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel De Menezes, U.S. citizen from Washington DC:
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"It’s crazy, it’s a once in a lifetime experience. My family and I just got here yesterday and we’ve been planning this trip for months. So the fact that it coincided, its awe-inspiring."
11. Various of St. Peter’s Square
STORYLINE:
Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
Among the thousands of faithful celebrating in the square the election of the new pope were many from the United States, some of them wrapped in the ‘Stars and Stripes’ flag, happy to have witnessed the first appearance of the first US pope.
"I’m just hoping that the new pope can help steer us in a good direction and in terms of politics, right now it’s very complicated," said Andrea Gallardo, a U.S. citizen from Texas.
Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.
In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo said, “Peace be with you,” and emphasized a message of peace, dialogue and missionary evangelization. He wore the traditional red cape of the papacy — a cape that Francis had eschewed on his election in 2013.
Prevost had been a leading candidate for the papacy, but there had long been a taboo against a U.S. pope, given the country’s geopolitical power already wielded in the secular sphere. But Prevost, a Chicago native, was seemingly eligible because he’s also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.
Pope Francis clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. And in January he elevated him into the senior ranks of cardinals. As a result, Prevost had a prominence going into the conclave that few other cardinals had.
The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers when white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel on the second day of the conclave. Priests made the sign of the cross and nuns wept as the crowd shouted “Viva il papa!”
AP Video by Silvia Stellaci, Paolo Santalucia and production by Francesco Sportelli
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