(8 May 2025)
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Vatican City – 8 May 2025
1. Long shot of Pope Leo XIV appearing on balcony, crowd heard cheering
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Leo XIV:
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"Peace be with you all. Dear brothers and sisters, this is the first greeting of the Risen Christ, the good shepherd who gave his life for the flock of God. I too would like this greeting of peace to enter your hearts to reach your families to all people everywhere to all the earth: peace be with you."
3. Pope Leo XIV on balcony ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++
STORYLINE:
Robert Prevost, the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, addressed the crowd at St Peter’s Square for the first time as Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.”
From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, history’s first American pope recalled he was an Augustinian priest, but that he was above all a Christian above all and a bishop, “So we can all walk together.”
Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. He appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica wearing the traditional red cape of the papacy — a cape that Pope Francis had eschewed on his election in 2013.
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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