In the Plaza de San Pedro the thousands of faithful already saw the smoking Blanca and listened to the “Habemus Papam”, but they still do not know that it is about Robert Prevost. Within the Sistine chapelwhere votes were made to choose the American cardinal with Peruvian nationality as new Supreme Pontiff, the cardinals sing the te deum. Prevost, in his first minutes as Pope, accompanies standing on the altar.
In the social networks of Vatican News The video spread with the first moments of Leo XIV. After the song of the te deum, between applause of the 133 cardinals who have just chosen, it is seen to leave the altar of the Sistine chapel with the imposing fresh of the final judgment of Miguel Ángel behind heading to the Pauline chapel.
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The video shows its passage through the royal roomguarded by the Swiss Guard, to reach the Paulina Chapel, where the cardinals hold the first match before starting the vote and where Prevost made his first prayer as a pontiff before heading to the faithful who hoped to meet him in the square.
After the silence of his first prayer as Pope, the video shows it again in the royal room receiving the greeting, now relaxed, from the cardinals and listens to Prevost say “thank you”his mother tongue that was not present in his first message, where He spoke in Italian and also in Spanish to send a greeting to Peruin particular, to his diocese of Chiclayo.
Cameras are heard shooting, applause and greetings outside the Sistine Chapel and informal meetings: They are the first minutes of the papacy of Leo XIV. His agenda will continue this Friday from 11, time of Italica, when he officiates a Mass in the Sistine Chapel for the cardinals in which he can give a vision of his church.
On Sunday at noon, Leo XIV will pronounce the prayer of Regina Coeli, the Marian prayer that is recited during the Pascual time, which goes from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday and replaces the Angelus prayer and will do so from the central balcony of the facade of the Basilica of San Pedro, from where this Thursday was released to the world as Leo XIV.
While, as Francisco already did, on May 12 he will hold an audience with all the representatives of the media in the Classroom Pablo VI. At the moment, it was not announced when the Pontificate’s Mass will bewhere the presence of delegations from all over the world is expected.
The Vatican spokesman confirmed that the election of Leo XIV is a reference to the modern social doctrine of the Church, which began with ‘Rerum Novarum’, the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903). And assured: “It is also clearly a non -random reference to working men and women in an era of artificial intelligence.”
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