Cardinal Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff

United States Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the archetypal US pontiff successful the 2,000-year past of the Catholic Church and has taken the sanction Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo made his archetypal nationalist quality to impart a blessing from the roofed country of St Peter’s Basilica. In his archetypal nationalist words, Pope Leo told the faithful “peace beryllium with each of you”. He emphasised the taxable of bid passim the address.

“Evil volition not prevail; we are successful the hands of God,” helium told the assemblage and a planetary audience. “So without fear, agreed manus successful manus with God and among ourselves, we spell forward.”

“Thank you, Pope Francis,” helium added.

The caller religion person called for a “missionary church…that builds bridges, is ever unfastened to invited everyone”.

“He is intelligibly mounting the code for his papacy,” Al Jazeera Hoda Abdel-Hamid reported from Vatican City.

“He besides had a governmental code there, calling for bid everywhere, calling for disarmament, calling for gathering bridges. So we bash get an thought successful which absorption helium volition beryllium heading,” she said.

“The excitement level is similar that of a World Cup final,” she noted earlier.

The papal announcement has been generated excitement tinged with anticipation around the world, with leaders from galore countries offering their congratulations.

Pope Leo spent his vocation ministering successful Peru and besides pb the Vatican’s almighty bureau of bishops,

Earlier, achromatic fume emerged retired of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a new pope had been elected.

Bells rang retired Thursday evening from the basilica aft cardinals elected the 267th pope to pb the religion connected the 2nd time of their conclave.

The fume awesome meant the victor secured astatine slightest 89 of the votes from the 133 cardinals participating successful the conclave to elite a successor to Pope Francis.

A apical cardinal uttered the words “Habemus papam!” – Latin for “We person a pope!” – from the loggia oregon roofed country of the basilica and past work the winner’s commencement sanction successful Latin and revealed the sanction helium has chosen to beryllium called.

Priests made the motion of the transverse and nuns wept arsenic the assemblage shouted “Viva il papa!” (“Long unrecorded the pope!”) aft the achromatic fume wafted into the precocious day entity astatine 6:07pm (16:07 GMT).

There had been a infinitesimal of hesitation successful the immense crowd. “Is it white!?” 1 of the tens of thousands of radical successful St Peter’s Square asked. “It is!!” different said, shouting with joy.

The assemblage erupted successful jubilation aft waiting for hours to spot the colour of the fume coming retired of the Sistine Chapel’s chimney.

Some had bought chairs, books and nutrient for what galore believed would person been a agelong wait.“Habemus papam!” a radical of radical chanted with emotion.

Significance of the caller papal name

The prime of sanction – Pope Leo XIV – is important arsenic Pope Leo XIII was the archetypal pope to make the thought of societal morals successful the Catholic church, Father James Bretzke, prof of theology astatine John Carroll University, tells Al Jazeera.

“Leo XIII, who ruled 1878 to 1903, wrote an encyclical which recognised however capitalism worked and the close of labour to organise and enactment for conscionable surviving conditions and moving conditions, which was truly foundational successful the church”, helium said.

“Up until that time, the church’s hierarchy tended to beryllium identified with the precocious class, and truthful Leo XIII enactment a redirection connected the church, and surely galore of the popes since that clip person built connected that,” helium added.

“I deliberation we tin spot a deepening of the church’s committedness to workers and the marginalised,” helium said.

‘Humble idiosyncratic similar Francis’

Reporting from Santiago, Chile, Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman, delves into Pope Leo’s galore years successful Latin America.

“He has not conscionable spent clip successful Peru. He is 69 years old, and helium spent astir of the past 40 years successful the country. He is simply a binational, truthful you could accidental that helium has spent much clip successful Latin America than successful the United States, the state of his birth.”

“He was named a cardinal successful 2023; earlier that, helium had been named the archbishop of Chiclayo. That is simply a precise mediocre portion of Peru with precocious unemployment and unspeakable infrastructure” she continued.

“It truly does correspond each that’s incorrect with galore parts of Latin America and Peru, peculiarly countries with large earthy wealth, with tons of minerals, but precise atrocious organisation of wealth.”

“This was thing that the erstwhile Pope Francis believed precise powerfully had to beryllium addressed, and truthful does the caller pope. These are things that they agreed on. He was precise adjacent to mean people. He was known to person meal each time with conscionable mean mean priests, a humble idiosyncratic similar Francis, and idiosyncratic precise successful tune with the needs of the poor”, Newman added.