From young black seminarians to college students from shorts and t-shirt, the meeting in front of the Basilica of the National Sanctuary of Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, was excited and cheerful on Thursday (8), with Election of the American Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV .
A freshman from the Catholic University was moved when asked what kind of Pope he wanted Leo XIV to be. “We definitely need a reformer,” he said.
“We really need unity and peace in the church now… I think it is great from the United States, because we need a world figure like this, the United States, to spread the true meaning of the gospel of Christ around the world.”
The young crowd gathered at the feet of the Largest US Catholic Church which, according to the basilica, is visited by about 1 million people a year. The place displayed yellow and white papal flags on each entrance and a huge American flag on the belfry after the news of the election of Leo XIV.
THE CNN He also talked to a Catholic University student who had converted to Catholicism around Easter. Austin Morris, from Ellicott City, Maryland, was directly by saying what I would like the Pope Lion to achieve asking him to move away from ecclesiastical policy.
“I want to kindly,” Morris said. “I feel that many people want a pope by their side. They want a more conservative pope. Or they want a more progressive pope. I don’t care about which the Pope is. What matters to me is that the Pope is beside Christ.”
In the Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, about 5,000 km from the hometown of the new Pope Leo XIV, in Chicago, the Catholics also took to the streets and the bells of the churches played to commemorate the election of the former minor they embraced as one of their own.
The cardinal Robert Prevost chosen as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has double citizenship, American and Peruvian, and worked for decades in northern Peru, first as a missionary and later as Bishop of Chiclayo, from 2015 to 2023.
This content was originally published in the US capital, young Catholics celebrate the election of the 1st American Pope on CNN Brazil.
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