LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — American response poured in Thursday after Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his profession ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s highly effective workplace of bishops, was elected the primary pope from america within the 2,000-year historical past of the Catholic Church.
“It’s such a great honor for our country to have an American pope,” President Donald Trump mentioned from the driveway entrance to the White Home. “I mean, what greater honor could there be and we were a little bit surprised and very happy. It’s just a great, absolutely great honor.”
The Chicago-born missionary took the title Leo XIV. In his first phrases as Pope Francis’ successor, he emphasised peace, dialogue, and missionary evangelization.
Folks gathering outdoors the historic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Metropolis had been bullish on the concept of an American-born pontiff.
“I’m just so excited for our country, for the world,” Paquita Chavez, a resident of Maspeth, NY, a residential group in Queens, informed CBS Information.
And within the Pennsylvania suburb of Oakland, close to Pittsburgh, the response was related.
“From what I hear, he’s a good guy and [I’m] just looking forward to seeing how the new pope works and what he’ll do for the Catholics,” Parth Bhargava, outdoors St. Paul Cathedral, informed CBS Information.
Morgan Weaver, additionally outdoors of St. Paul Cathedral, informed CBS Information Thursday, “He said that he was going to build on Pope Francis’ practices and teaching, so I’m excited to see how he leads the church.”
Folks in Philadelphia – not removed from Villanova College, the place the brand new pope studied – are claiming some pleasure and possession of Prevost as effectively. “From the Main Line to the Divine Line,” a billboard on a Pennsylvania freeway mentioned.
Prevost graduated from Villanova with a Bachelor of Science in Arithmetic in 1977 and obtained an honorary Physician of Humanities, honoris causa, from the college in 2014. He’s additionally the primary Augustinian Pope.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
