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(a year ago)Pope Leon XIV held his first mass on Friday in the Sistine Hat, where he was elected the Pope the day before, warning of the dangers of lack of faith and hoping that the Catholic Church could be the beacon that illuminates the world's “dark”. Leonie, former Cardinal named [...]
Leon, a former cardinal named Robert Prevost and the first American pope, looked calm until he ran Mass in the famous frescoed hat, alongside the same cardinals who chose him as Pope 267th and descendants of Pope Francis.
Dressed in relatively simple white and gold garments, Chicago-born Leon XIV ʹ spoke a few words in English before continuing his preaching with a fluent Italian.
During Mass, Leoni XIV, 69, described his vision of the church that wants to build it, saying it aims to serve as the faithful “administrator” for the entire church.
The new pope, who leads 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, acknowledged that Christian faith sometimes ascribes absurd “ ” and as something that belongs to the weak and uneducated “
“The lack of faith is often associated with the loss of meaning, neglect of mercy, terrible violations of human dignity, the family crisis and many other wounds that plague our society”, he said.
He was elected pope in the third vote Thursday, on the second day of the treaty.
Who's the new pope?
Robert Prevost, 69, a missionary who has spent most of his career serving in Peru, was among the main candidates for the pope except that there was a barrier - citizenship.
There has long been a taboo to select an American pope because of the geopolitical power the United States exercises in the secular realm.
However, Prevost, originally from Chicago, also a citizen of Peru and had lived there for years at first as a missionary and was later seen as an acceptable figure.
Pope Francis had long turned his attention to Prevost and, in many ways, considered him his potential successor.
In 2023, he brought him to the Vatican to appoint him to the head of the powerful dictatorship that examines Archbishop appointments from around the world one of the most important duties in the Catholic Church.
As a result, Prevost had a high profile in the context, which few other cardinals enjoyed.
After the election of the new pope, US President Donald Trump said that “is very honored that he is the first pope to be American”.
What emotion and what great honor for our country. I look forward to seeing Pope Leon 14th. It will be a very important moment”, Trump said. / REL/
