Who is the new Pope Leo XIV: American Robert Francis Prevost | International
Him New popeRobert Francis Prevost, he is 69 years old and is American, Latin half “, was born in Chicago, father of French origin and mother of Spanish origins, and spent 40 years in Peru, where he was a bishop.
Of a quiet and humble nature, antipathies did not wake up in any sector, perhaps to maintain a very low profile (he has not released a single interview). It is one of the few that Francisco stressed in some way, appointing him by surprise in 2023 head of the powerful dicastery for the bishops, a position in which he had contacts with all the continents. He has a lot of pastoral and government experience, since he was superior to the Augustinians, the order to which he belongs and knows the Curia.
Prevost broke the unwritten rule to avoid appointing Pope to the US cardinals to proceed from the most powerful country, perhaps due to its most complex profile. It is a mediator among the US bishops, the Church in which ideological division and polarization are stronger. You can return donations to the coffers of the Vatican of Maltrecha in the Donald Trump era.
The challenges of the new pope, Leo XIV. Divorce, women or collective LGTBI, among others. “The clearest field of the open doctrinal battle, in which Francisco made more bold and controversial movements for his more traditional opponents, was a sexual doctrine”, explains the correspondent of El País in Rome, íñigo Domínguez. Here you can read all the keyswhich include a more shared government and the role of the pontiff in foreign policy.
Smoke after the fourth vote. As foreseen in the ritual of the election of the new pontiff, at 18.08 Peninsular Spanish time, he made the agreement through the Smoked blank. It was a short conclave: Four votes were neededThe same as when Benedict XVI was chosen.
