(8 May 2025)
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Vatican – 8 May 2025
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1. Woman wearing US flag as a cape
2. Wide of St. Peter’s Square
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Thomas Reese, Senior Analyst, Religion News Service:
"Well, it was a huge surprise. We never expected an American to be elected pope. I think what happened was that the Latin American cardinals backed Prevost for pope because remember he had worked in Latin America both as a bishop and as a priest for twenty years or more. So I think the Latin American cardinals saw him as one of their own, not a ‘gringo’ (foreigner or non-Hispanic person). And so with their solid support, I think he began to gain more support from the other cardinals and that got him elected."
4. Press doing live shots following announcement of new Pope
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Thomas Reese, Senior Analyst, Religion News Service:
"It’s hard to tell, you know, I think once someone starts to gain votes, a lot of people throw their votes to him. But I think, you know, there’s a number of cardinals that would have been very happy with him. The cardinals who were appointed by Pope Francis, I would think, would have been very happy with Prevost. So I’m not surprised that a number of Americans voted for him."
6. People with American flags
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Thomas Reese, Senior Analyst, Religion News Service:
"Well, he is an Augustinian priest, which means he’s religious like Pope Francis was. Pope Francis was a Jesuit, Provost was a Augustinian. And so he went to Latin America to serve the people there. Actually, it’s interesting, Pope Francis wanted to be a missionary, but because of his health, they wouldn’t let him. In any case, I think what’s significant about Prevost is the name he chose. He chose Leo. And you have to remember that his predecessor, Leo XIII, was the one who started the Catholic social justice movement in the Catholic Church. He was alive at the time of the Industrial Revolution, and Pope Leo XIII was on the side of the workers, on the side of labor unions, on side of the oppressed, when a lot of people weren’t. And so I think that’s a signal. The new Pope Leo is going to be strong for social justice, strong for working for peace, strong for protecting the environment, just as Pope Francis was."
8. Wide of St. Peter’s Square
9. Woman singing “Ave Maria” in Via Della Conciliazione
STORYLINE:
One analyst said of the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as new pope that Latin Americans gave an important boost to his chances in the Conclave.
Rev. Thomas Reese a senior analyst from the Religion News Service, said he thought that the Latin American cardinals "saw him as one of their own."
"And so with their solid support, I think he began to gain more support from the other cardinals and that got him elected."
He added that once someone starts to gain votes, "a lot of people throw their votes to him" and that the large number cardinals appointed by Pope Francis "would have very happy with Prevost."
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 was seemingly eligible because he’s also a Peruvian citizen and had lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.
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