(8 May 2025)
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Madrid, Spain – 08 May 2025
1. Various of bells tolling at Almudena Cathedral in Madrid
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernanda Sousa, accountant:
"Surprised! Very surprised. No, I didn’t think that it would be a pope from the United States. Oh my God. Okay, may he do a good job for the church."
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pilar Rozas, retired teacher:
"But come on, if there is a pope, whether from one place or another, it’s the same to me. I mean to say that it’s the pope, and since I have faith, I have no preference."
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Letizia Peraza, business woman:
"I think that regardless of nationality, regardless of who one is, one must be prepared. And must know, must understand and above all, be a spiritual person and speak and act with love, I mean with their heart, this is what it (Papacy) represents."
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Sepertino, Argentinian priest:
"With the profile that Pope Francis chose in Cardinal Prevost, which was to give each episcopal appointment a nuance, a missionary dimension. That’s why he will surely continue with the legacy that Pope Francis has left us."
6. Wide of people walking outside church as bells toll
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 on Thursday.
Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.
Catholic tourists and locals near Madrid’s Almudena Cathedral, said they were surprised.
"I didn’t think that it would be a pope from the United States. Oh my God," said Fernanda Sousa, adding that she hopes the new pope does a good job.
Letizia Peraza told The Associated Press the pope’s nationality did not matter to the faithful.
"Regardless of who one is, one must be prepared. And must speak and act with love," she added.
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.
AP video by Iain Sullivan
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