Robert Prevost becomes first American pope

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Cardinal Robert Francis Brevost was elected as the new Pope to lead Catholics of 1.4 billion in the world.

Prevost, the first American to be the Pope, is seen as a compromise candidate who can find wide support in a divided Catholic church. He will be known as Pope Liu XIV.

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In a publication on the social truth, US president Donald Trump said: “Congratulations to the Cardinal Robert Francis Privost. It is a great honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What is excitement, and what is a great honor for our country.

Less than an hour after the white smoke captured the Sistin Church on Thursday, the Cardinal Dominic Mambarti went out to the balcony of Bachelica, St. Peter. He said, “Habemus Papam”, confirming the thousands who gathered in the square below that Conclave chose a new back.

Prevost, 69, spent decades as a priest who studies and serves in Peru, later runs turbulent dioceses and becomes a member of the Peruvian Bishops Conference.

Chicago’s citizen was close to the late Pope Francis, who called him to the Vatican in 2023, and asked him to lead the Korean Effects Department at the dates of the bishop, a task that helped him develop networks between the global Catholic leadership.

Analysts say the task is likely to help mobilize the two -thirds majority required to elect the Pope.

Americans are seen as participating in many Francis’ ideas about the environment and immigration, the ideals that can bring him into a conflict with the Trump administration over its anti -immigration policies.

Before his last illness, Francis wrote a strong letter to American Catholic clerics, and urged them to stand against the demonstrators of immigrants.

In St. Peter’s Square, the American Catholics – some American flags – were surprised and filled with sudden prevost to the papal throne.

John Sanchez, 27, the American-born American son, said. “It is like winning the lottery.”

But Sanchez expected that the Pope could “collide with Trump on certain things, for sure with immigrants, but not on everything. I hope he works with [the US] also. It is important to work with all people. ”

Prevost takes the leadership of the wrestling church with a sharp decrease in attendance in its traditional European stronghold, and deep questions about how young and women are kept involved in believing that his leadership is completely mentioned.

“all [Catholic] Massimo Vaguli, professor of theology at the University of Villanova in Pennsylvania, said that the church in every continent has this problem in different ways.

The Apostolic Chair also faces other challenges, such as increased concern about its unstable financial resources, and demands stronger measures to protect children from sexual assault by priests.

Participated in additional reports from Juliana Rickezi in Rome