Transcript of Cardinal Robert Prevost's first speech as Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV appears connected the cardinal loggia of St. Peter's Basilica aft being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, astatine the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. Alessandra Tarantino/AP hide caption

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Cardinal Robert Prevost made his archetypal code arsenic Pope Leo XIV connected the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, soon aft being elected pontiff. Below is simply a transcript of the speech, translated from its archetypal Italian.

Peace beryllium with each of you!
Dearest brothers and sisters, this is the archetypal greeting of the Risen Christ, the bully shepherd who gave his beingness for God's flock.

I, too, would similar this greeting of bid to participate your hearts, to scope your families, and each people, wherever they are, each of the people, each implicit the earth.

Peace beryllium with you!

This is the bid of the Risen Christ, an unarmed bid and a disarming peace, humble and persevering. It comes from God, God who loves america each unconditionally. We inactive person successful our ears that weak, but ever courageous dependable of Pope Francis arsenic helium blessed Rome!

The Pope who blessed Rome, gave his blessing to the world, to the full world, that Easter morning. Allow maine to travel up connected that aforesaid blessing: God loves us, God loves you all, and evil volition not prevail!

We are each successful the hands of God.

Therefore, without fear, agreed manus successful manus with God and among ourselves, we determination forward. We are disciples of Christ.

Christ precedes us. The satellite needs his light. Humanity needs him arsenic the span to allows it to beryllium reached by God and by his love.

Help us, too, and assistance each different to physique bridges, with dialogue, with meetings, uniting america each to beryllium 1 people, ever successful peace. Thank you, Pope Francis! I besides privation to convey each my member cardinals who person chosen maine to beryllium Peter's Successor, and to locomotion unneurotic with you, arsenic a agreed Church ever seeking peace, justice, ever seeking peace, justice, ever seeking to enactment arsenic men and women who
are faithful to Jesus Christ, without fear, to proclaim the Gospel, to beryllium missionaries.

I americium a lad of Saint Augustine, an Augustinian, who said: "with you I americium a Christian and for you I americium a bishop". In this sense, we tin each locomotion unneurotic towards that homeland that God has prepared for us.

To the Church of Rome, a peculiar greeting! We indispensable question unneurotic however to beryllium a missionary Church, a Church that builds bridges, dialogue, ever unfastened to person similar this quadrate with its unfastened arms, all, each who request our charity, our presence, dialog and love.

And if you let maine a word, a greeting to each and particularly to my beloved diocese of Chiclayo, successful Peru, wherever a faithful radical accompanied their bishop, shared their religion and gave so, truthful overmuch to proceed being a Church that is faithful to Jesus Christ.

To each of you, brothers and sisters of Rome, of Italy, of the full world, we privation to beryllium a Church of the Synod, a Church that walks, a Church that ever seeks peace, that ever seeks charity, that ever seeks to beryllium close, particularly to those who suffer.

Today is the time of the Supplication to Our Lady of Pompeii. Our Mother Mary ever wants to locomotion with us, to beryllium close, to assistance america with her intercession and her love. So, I would similar to commune unneurotic with you. Let america commune unneurotic for this caller mission, for the full Church, for bid successful the satellite and fto america besides inquire Mary, our Mother, for this peculiar grace.

Hail Mary...