Pope Leo XVI The Vatican said it will be officially installed as the Pope when the first public mass was held in St. Peter's Square on May 18. The first pope born in the United States, before Cardinal Robert Prevostwill also host his first batch of ordinary audiences on May 21.
Leo The First Islands of His Pope was held in the Church of Sistine On Friday morning, the service was provided to the Cardinals of the Catholic Church and was not open to the public.
At the Pope's inauguration, the masses were celebrated before political and religious leaders around the world. While world leaders are often invited to the beginning of numerous figures, most countries tend to send official delegations rather than heads of state.
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Masses previously included the Pope's coronation, but since Pope John Paul II officially became the Pope in 1978, parts of the celebration have not been included in the Mass. His former Pope Paul VI was the last Pope to be crowned or used Papal Tiara.
The inauguration of the Pope now involves the formal award of the Pall faction, a white wool band decorated with the matching cross of the Pope, a symbol of the pope's universal jurisdiction.
Thursday, Born in Chicago Cardinal Robert Prevost69, was elected and accepted his role as the next bishop of Rome, the world's 1.4 billion Catholic leader. Prevost is the first pope in the history of America and chose Leo Xiv as his Pope's name.
Leo said during his first Homily, who was elected as the Pope, that he would be a “faithful executive” of the church and warned against lowering Jesus to “a charismatic leader or superman.”
He lamented that there are many environments in the modern world where people prefer “technology, money, success, strength or pleasure” more than the Christian faith. “In these contexts, it is not easy to preach the gospel and witness its truth, in which believers are ridiculed, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied,” the new pope said. “However, it is for this reason that they are places where our missionaries are desperately needed to propagate. Lack of faith is often accompanied by loss of meaning in life, neglect of mercy, violation of human dignity, family crises, family crises and many other harms that plague our society.”
Haley Ott contributed to the report.
