Pope Leo XIV is a man who is “balanced, measured, and unwavering.”
The day after his election as the new pope, the American daily newspaper “The New York Times” painted a portrait of Robert Francis Prevost. A cardinal relatively unknown to the general public, he nevertheless enjoys an international aura and an image as a man of consensus.
Robert Francis Prevost, elected the 267th pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday, May 8 , under the name Leo XIV, is the first sovereign pontiff from the United States. The decision of the 133 cardinal electors, announced by a billowing white smoke at the end of the second day of the conclave in the Sistine Chapel, runs counter to the long-held belief that the College of Cardinals would never appoint a pope from a global superpower that already wields considerable influence over the world. Francis 's successor could well shake up the global power structures of the Catholic Church.
His American nationality places him in a prime position to offer his own distinctiveness in the face of the conservative Catholicism in vogue in his country. He has already spoken out vigorously against the vision of political Christianity promoted by the Trump administration.
Beyond his American origins, this 69-year-old polyglot, born in Chicago, has the image of a man of the Church who transcends borders. He ministered for twenty years in Peru, where he became a bishop and a naturalized citizen, before taking over the leadership of his religious order internationally [as prior general of the
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