(18 May 2025)
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Vatican City – 18 May 2025
1. Wide of people in St. Peter’s Square
2. Mid of a nun holding a l’Osservatore Romano newspaper with a photo of Pope Leo XIV on the frontpage
3. Close of L’Osservatore Romano newspaper’s frontpage
4. Various of Peruvian faifhful waving Peruvian flags and cheering Pope Leo XIV
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yul Tito, faithful from Ancash region in Peru: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"We are a Peruvian community that has come to shout and express our love for this Pope who is also Peruvian and really fills us with joy, because this place is the place of God and where we all lend our love to God now. Long live Peru! Long live the Pope! Long live the Pope!"
6. Crowds leaving St. Peter’s Square after the Pope’s Mass in Vatican City
7. Close up of a person holding wooden panel with Chicago flag on it
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lily Luna, faithful from Chicago:
"Actually I live not far from where the Pope’s brother lives. I grew up in Joliet and Lenox area, so I feel like it’s a full circle moment because just to think that he was basically at my church last summer giving mass and now he’s here giving mass for the whole world. So I just feel it’s a very special moment in my life and I wanted to take part of it because its now a historical part of the spiritual."
9. Crowd leaving St. Peter’s Square
10. Close up of Maltese flag
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Carmel Massa, faithful from Malta:
"I think it’s a very good choice. We said to our cardinal who comes from our country, from Malta, we told him ‘I think you made a very good choice’, because he seems to be an international collection of experiences."
12. People in St. Peter’s Square
13. Close up of a woman wrapped in a Kenyan flag
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther Onyango, faithful from Kenya:
"Everybody has his own way of leadership so I hope for a start it’s good to go. So for me it’s okay because everybody has their way of leadership and everybody has their way of doing their things, and the fact that he’s a people’s person, that’s enough for me."
15. Various of St. Peter’s Square
16. Various of a woman singing in St. Peter’s Square
STORYLINE:
Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and princes.
Among the people gathered in the square were a group of faithful from Peru, where Pope Leo XIV lived for years as a missionary first and then as archbishop, obtaining Peruvian citizenship.
"We are a Peruvian community that has come to shout and express our love for this Pope who is also Peruvian and really fills us with joy," said Yul Tito, a faithful from the Ancash region of Peru.
"I just feel it’s a very special moment in my life," added Lily Luna, a faithful from Chicago, where the Pope was born.
Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has become synonymous with the papacy’s global reach and mediatic draw. The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary smiled and waved from the back of the truck, but didn’t appear to stop to kiss babies and the crowd.
AP video by Silvia Stellacci
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