(8 May 2025)
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Vatican City – 8 May 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Leo XIV:
"This is the peace of the risen Christ, a disarmed peace and a disarming peace. Humble and persevering it comes from God, God who loves us all unconditionally. We still keep in our ears that weak but always courageous voice of Pope Francis blessing in Rome."
3. Crowd in St. Peter’s Square
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Leo XIV:
"The Pope who blessed in Rome, gave his blessing to the world, to the entire world. That Easter morning. Let me follow up on that same blessing. God loves us. God loves you all and evil will not prevail. We are all in the hands of God. Therefore, without fear, united hand in hand with God and among ourselves, let us move forward. We are disciples of Christ. Christ precedes us. The world needs his light. Humanity needs him, as the bridge to be reached by God and his love."
5. Crowd
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Leo XIV:
"You too help us, then each other to build bridges with dialogue, with the encounter, uniting to be one people always in peace. Thanks to Pope Francis."
7. Crowd
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.
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.
He spoke to the crowd in Italian and Spanish, but not English.
The last pope to take the name Leo was Leo XIII, an Italian who led the church from 1878 to 1903.
That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thought, most famously with his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed workers’ rights and capitalism.
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