Pope Leo XIV ’s inauguration on Sunday will be a symbol-laden welcome before hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful crammed into St Peter’s Square, but like Pope Francis’s funeral just a fortnight ago, it will be the interaction of world leaders that will be intensely scrutinised.
The suspicious fires at the British Prime Minister’s home, a second property and a vehicle linked to him came hours before he announced a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Pope Leo XIV has called on global leaders to safeguard the right to free speech and a free press, demanding freedom for detained journalists around the world.
Sydneysider Tony Banks, a long time friend of Pope Leo XIV, said he was still coming to terms with calling the man he knows as ‘Bob’ as ‘His Holiness’.
He is being celebrated as the first American Pope, but it turns out that the new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, is so much more than that.
Experts had considered Tim Tam loving Cardinal Prevost the main papabile, for his middle-of-the-range church politics and quiet nature.
Pope Leo XIV has delivered a multilingual mass inside the Sistine Chapel, saying ‘a lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by … wounds that afflict our society’.
The new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics – the 267th pontiff – has taken the papal name Leo XIV.
Thousands of the faithful and curious were awaiting the smoke in St Peter’s Square on the morning of the second day of secret voting by the 133 cardinal electors.
Many in the waiting crowd cheered when they saw the black smoke: with darkness descending, it was hard to discern the colour and some thought a new pope had been chosen. Instead cardinals had failed to reach the required two-thirds majority.
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