Posted on May 08, 2025 at 19:58. / Modified on May 08, 2025 at 22:11.
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The air slightly embarrassed, discreet. The smile takes shape slowly, with fatigue, on his fine lips. But the features of Leon XIV quickly relax when the tens of thousands of faithful begin to scream his papal name and to sing “Long live the pope»Repeated. The new sovereign pontiff, elected Thursday after 6 p.m., looked in silence for long minutes the tens of thousands of faithful gathered in Place Saint-Pierre. “It looks like a rock star,” says this young Frenchman. What delights this young faithful is the continuity advocated by the American Pope with his predecessor. “With all the conflicts there is, it is important that he advocates peace,” he continues. It is a pope who seems to put peace at the center of his pontificate and I hope this will be the case. ”
The first words of Léon XIV indeed recall that of his Argentine predecessor. “We must seek together how to be a missionary Church, a Church which builds bridges and which welcomes all those who need our charity,” he launches in a visibly written speech before going to the Loggia, the small balcony on Saint-Pierre square, alongside many cardinals out of the large windows of the basilica.
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