Robert Prevost is the new Pope and the news quickly spread internationally. Peru celebrates it as its own and in its native country they stressed that the first Holy Father from the United States.
There was Blanca Fumata in the Vatican and the news of the new Pope Leo XIV circulated throughout the world. All media echoed and, according to El País, they reflected it in a particular way. In Peru they assume it as their own, while in the United States, where the new Holy Father is from, and in Europe they highlighted the speed with which he was chosen, in two days.
“The new Pope is Peruvian” celebrated the popular Trome newspaper of the Andean country after knowing Robert Prevost’s choice. The rest of the media in that country followed it. Is that Prevost made its first ministerial years in Peruwhere he exercised as a missionary in a poor region of the north of the country, in the diocese of Chulucanas. In 2015 he adopted Peruvian citizenship after more than fifteen years of missionary work in Latin America.
In their native country, the United States, the media also highlighted it as the main news in all portals. The New York Times public: “Robert Francis Prevost is chosen as the first American Pope”. CNN did the same in Spanish. The Washington Post He highlighted the symbolism of his papal name, Leo XIVand the speed in which she was chosen, just in two days.
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In Spain, a country of strong Catholic tradition, the media also put it as the main news. The newspaper El País He stressed that Leo XIV is the “first American Pope” and his columnists called him “healer” and “missionary.”
For its part, the BBC From Great Britain highlighted in the same title its origin and its country of adoption, something that will surely mark its personality and its papacy: “Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal American with Peruvian nationality, is the new Pope of the Catholic Church and will be called Leo XIV.”
In Brazil, O Globe One of Leo XIV’s main messages: “We need to be a church that builds bridges“. In Uruguaythe newspaper The country He gave much importance to his relationship with Peru and put as the most important messages the “Call for peace” already “all peoples.”
Who is Robert Prevost, the new Pope: a man close to Francisco, who lived in Peru, and is considered “bridge” between two churches
Considered among the candidates to happen to Bergoglio, the cardinal Robert Francis Prevost He was chosen as the next Pope. His name sounded strongly, since it is an example of the new ecclesial leadership profile promoted by the Argentine pontiff: near the peripheries, polyglot, and with pastoral experience outside the traditional European axis.
Born in Chicago in 1955, and raised in a Catholic family of workers’ roots, Prevost entered the San Agustín Order In his youth, promoted by a missionary vocation that consolidated himself with his studies of philosophy and theology in the Catholic Theological Union And later in Rome, where he was a doctorate in Canon law.
It was ordered Priest in 1982and soon a trajectory began that would take him out of the United States, moving it away from the comfort of the academic field to get at the service of peripheries.
Source: Ambito
