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The Johns Hopkins University India Conference begins at 1.45 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN. | |
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| A new pope has been chosen to lead the Roman Catholic Church. | ||
| Cardinal Robert Prevost was selected by at least two-thirds of the 133 cardinals who took part in the two-day conclave. | ||
| The new Catholic leader, who has chosen the name Leo XIV, is the first pope from the United States, having been born in Chicago in 1955. | ||
| He studied at Villanova University, which is just outside Philadelphia, before deciding to become a priest and taking his vows in 1978. | ||
| He was later awarded a Master in Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. | ||
| Leo XIV succeeds the late Pope Francis, who passed away earlier this year. | ||
| And President Trump has weighed in on the historic choice, posting this. | ||
| Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. | ||
| It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. | ||
| What excitement and what a great honor for our country. | ||
| I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. | ||
| It will be a very meaningful moment. | ||
| We have smoke in St. Peter's Square now. | ||
| So we will come back and it looks to be white. | ||
| We have smoke streaming up. | ||
| This is good. | ||
| This is incredible news here coming up here on 6.08 p.m. here in Rome at the Vatican. | ||
| And we have white smoke streaming out. | ||
| And you can see the crowds. | ||
| And we hear the crowds applauding there. | ||
| As you can see, now we've got the camera work on there. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Just crowds of people crying. | ||
| This is amazing. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| And celebrating this special moment. | ||
| It's so light. | ||
| There was a brief moment where we were a little unsure, but it is confirmed it is white smoke. | ||
| We have white smoke here. | ||
| A smoke warning. | ||
| A smoke warning. | ||
| We're no longer watching. | ||
| Wow, my goodness. | ||
| I was walking out the door. | ||
| We're back. | ||
| We're talking about it. | ||
| I'm still out of breath from racing up here. | ||
| I can't believe it. | ||
| I'm actually surprised as well, because given the complexity of the reality we were talking about and the many issues and the diversity. | ||
| But here we are, and look at our drone footage there. | ||
| We're just cruising over the roof of the Sistine Chapel. | ||
| You see the crowds. | ||
| This is the Belgium. | ||
| This is the Belgian. | ||
| It is 100% white smoke. | ||
| The white smoke. | ||
| And I mean, as we were talking about before, the crowds are passed. | ||
| It's incredible. | ||
| And that's probably small compared to what's coming in now. | ||
| And that smoke just scared away our seagulls there, the little family there that was just relaxing on Sistine Chapel roof there. | ||
| But actually, as you mentioned at the beginning, TJ, it seemed like they did know. | ||
| They came back just for the white smoke. | ||
| Indeed, indeed. | ||
| In fact, maybe they were giving us a kind of a secret bit of information that they knew that we didn't know. | ||
| But here we are, and then a spectacular, sunny, brilliant evening here. | ||
| And you can even see from the perspective of the crowds there in St. Peter's Square, the white smoke billowing from the chimney, even as the sun starts going down behind the dome of St. Peter's there. | ||
| Well, thanks be to God. | ||
| Honestly. | ||
| And this smoke will last at least about six minutes, six and a half minutes. | ||
| And with a light breeze there in the square, we can see it billowing down towards the square. | ||
| And we've got now basically about 45 minutes to at least an hour before the new pope just elected to greet everyone. | ||
| And so there's huge anticipation, naturally, of who will the new successor of St. Peter be. | ||
| Well, and I mean, as we were talking about before, you see the crowds filling the squares, but also the different people will come. | ||
| I mean, you can see the flags waving, people smiling. | ||
| It's a big sign of the universality of the church, but then also just how supportive people are in the sense of being here for this moment. | ||
| And now we're going to have an invasion of Romans. | ||
| They're going to be coming in. | ||
| No, it's only natural and normal. | ||
| I mean, you live here, so those who can will be. | ||
| And he's a very bishop, too. | ||
| What's that? | ||
| He's their bishop, too. | ||
| Of course, he's their bishop. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| And so they're going to be streaming into the square now. | ||
| It's going to be filling up. | ||
| It will make for some interesting traffic around my house because if my recollection is correct, when they couldn't get any further, they just left their cars in the road. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| So there you are. | ||
| They were just stopping in the road. | ||
| Making us. | ||
| There's nowhere else to go. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| Look at that billowing, thick white smoke there. | ||
| All the different flags. | ||
| I love the people ready with their flags just in case. | ||
| My daughter said that the election of Pope Benedict XVI, her closest friend, they went to school right around the corner here, and her closest friend was German. | ||
| And they went running out into the square and out comes Joseph Grantsinger. | ||
| She said her friend had this teeny tiny little teenage girl purse. | ||
| She pulled out of this purse this flag, this enormous flag. | ||
| It was suddenly raining. | ||
| Oh my goodness. | ||
| Apparently, a lot of people come prepared. | ||
| Yeah, that's the thing because you just never know. | ||
| I mean, when I was in the square earlier, people thought, oh, no, it might be a longer time. | ||
| It could take days. | ||
| You just don't know. | ||
| You just don't know. | ||
| Yeah, you just don't know. | ||
| In fact, I didn't know what to expect. | ||
| At the same time, it's a wonderful surprise here to see the white smoke billowing there. | ||
| And so after just, oh, day and a half, basically. | ||
| And here we are. | ||
| It does make you feel like there's a wonderful sense of the noise stopped, the cameras went off, they went into the chapel, they prayed, and the Holy Spirit spoke. | ||
| I mean, it just really gives us a great sense of confidence. | ||
| And indeed, this hope that's being realized that we have a new shepherd, so to speak, someone to take on the reins there and to accompany us on this journey of our life journey. | ||
| And it will be fascinating to see, as I say, you see the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica. | ||
| You see that's where the new Pope will be appearing, as he traditionally does, to be announced that Abbe Muspapa, that we have a Pope. | ||
| And then the big surprise will be as he proceeds towards the Central Lodge and we see who that cardinal is now dressed in white. | ||
| Well, and for many people, they might be thinking, okay, why is there this long wait, as you mentioned, Thaddeus? | ||
| Why is there this long wait in between when we see the white smoke and when the Pope, the new Pope, comes out into the loggia? | ||
| And it's because there's a process that's going on right now. | ||
| There is a very long process, which will be the Oath of Allegiance of the Cardinals, of which there are 132 now. | ||
| And we saw how long it took for the oath to be, for the oath to the Conclave. | ||
| I'm imagining it will take about that length for the Oath of Allegiance. | ||
| Well, and also, Liz, you had mentioned before, way before in our discussion, the Room of Tears, which has become very essential right now. | ||
| So right now, the Pope, the new Pope, would have gone, or is it after? | ||
| I would think that the ballots are burned after. | ||
| I think he's already, and I think that's one of the reasons why this is kind of a funny hour. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I was. | ||
| As it got to be past five, I was thinking, well, I guess now we have to wait until seven. | ||
| But I think this must have been the time that he spent in that room of tears thinking about or preparing himself for what is look at that square. | ||
| And that square is just, it's a microcosm of the millions, if not billions, who are watching, all of them fixed to see some of them already Christians, Catholics, but other people who are really searching. | ||
| And there is so much searching going on in the world. | ||
| I don't know how many of the people that I've been working with in the secular media circles who talk about, well, I used to be Catholic or I went to Catholic school or I was an altar boy or I was this. | ||
| But they somehow feel this moment as still their own. | ||
| It's a funny thing about those sacraments, right, Father? | ||
| It's like, hard to get rid of those. | ||
| And so he's also the father to those people and to all the others who don't even know that they're orphaned yet. | ||
| All the people we pray for on Good Friday. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| And there's also a real life need going on in the Room of Tears as well, because probably the tailors are very busy adjusting one of those cassocks to be able for the new Pope to be able to wear out until the Lord's time. | ||
| Oh, and don't forget the barber. | ||
| They keep a barber back there just in case he needs like a shave and a trim or something. | ||
| Because some of them show up scrubby for the conclave. | ||
| They're not expecting it. | ||
| So apparently they've got a barber back there. | ||
| Also sworn to secrecy. | ||
| But these are incredible moments, aren't they? | ||
| Wow. | ||
| And what a surprise. | ||
| You were sending out that report on looking at history, and here we are, the smoke billowing out, and here we are waiting now to see who the new Pope will be. | ||
| Okay, there's movement. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| The white curtains are behind the glass door. | ||
| Now the doors are being opened. | ||
| Can we see first? | ||
| Here we are, Miss. | ||
| The Cardinal Proto-Deacon. | ||
| Dominique Monberti. | ||
| And he's smiling. | ||
| He's smiling. | ||
| He will give us the announcement. | ||
| Suspense. | ||
| Sancte Romane Ecclesiae, Cardinalem Prevost, qui sibi nomen imposuit, Leonem Decimum Quartum. | ||
| So, the Pope is Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who's taken the name of Leo XIV, Pope Leo XIV. | ||
| Cardinal Provost is an American, and he spent most of his ministry in Latin America, in Peru, and also in Paraguay. | ||
| And he then, he's an Augustinian father. | ||
| He was the provincial in Latin America and then became the bishop of Chiclayo in Peru. | ||
| And he then is also, he became the Superior General of the Augustinian Fathers as well. | ||
| He's now the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. | ||
| We see the Cardinal Electors. | ||
| They're appearing on the balcony there as well with this joy and smiles on their face. | ||
| A great joy indeed. | ||
| And well, it wasn't Lenovo. | ||
| I believe you say what a great joy. | ||
| It's a wonderful joy. | ||
| And he's from Chicago. | ||
| Yes, Illinois. | ||
| An American. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| An American. | ||
| I think that's a historic moment. | ||
| Which is truly, truly historic. | ||
| Here we are. | ||
| There we are. | ||
| Pope Leo XIV is now a Pope. | ||
| Period. | ||
| Coming to the central logger of the Basilica. | ||
| Very special moment. | ||
| Very special moment. | ||
| There he is, Cardinal. | ||
| And the applause going up, the greeting, the waving. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Smiles. | ||
| How amazing. | ||
| How amazing. | ||
| And Dr. Liz Love is also talking about the symbolism of the red that he's wearing. | ||
| You know, it is a sacrificial role, and that is the symbol of the cloth that he's wearing right now. | ||
| And we see this beautiful close-up view from the side there at the same level as the logger. | ||
| Pope Leo XIV. | ||
| Pope Leo XIV. | ||
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Amazing. | |
| Smiling. | ||
| You can see who wouldn't be taken by the moment. | ||
| And I think the weight of this responsibility. | ||
| Oh, yeah. | ||
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You can see it on his face. | |
| Amazing. | ||
| After this, you're never the same person. | ||
| No. | ||
| And we're hearing the bands below the mutual salute of the anthems, the hymns of the Vatican hymn and the Italian national anthem as we do truish morning traditionally with the Eastern and Christmas, as we've mentioned. | ||
| And after this, now, Pope Leo XIV will give a greeting and impart his first apostolic blessing, the Urbiet Orbi, to the city and to the whole world. | ||
| So that blessing extends to everyone who is watching, everyone who is listening, your family, wherever you are. | ||
| It's a great moment to prepare ourselves for this first blessing. | ||
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This most solemn blessing. | |
| You can just feel and see the emotion on his face. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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And the crowds there gathered in St. Peter's Square, still arriving. | |
| We're being told from the avenues surrounding the Vatican there, the streets and the so just getting messages here. | ||
| Congratulations, God bless the Pope. | ||
| And you can hear the chanting from the square. | ||
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Long live the Pope. | |
| And we're all silent now, awaiting his first words. | ||
| La pace sia con tutti voi! | ||
| Fratelli, sorelle carissimi, questo è il primo saluto del Cristo risorto, il buon pastore che ha dato la vita per il grege di Dio. | ||
| Anquí voreque cuesto saluto di pace entrance ne lostro cuore. | ||
| Rajun jese le vostre familie. | ||
| A tutte le persone, ovunque si ano. | ||
| A tutti popoli, a tutte la terra. | ||
| We're just hearing the first words of Pope Leo XIV as he continues. | ||
| We'll provide a summary here in just a moment. | ||
| As we listen to his words, he's asked everyone to brother. | ||
| This is the peace of the risen Christian. | ||
| A peace that is disarmed and humble and persevering. | ||
| It comes from God. | ||
| who loves all of us without any limits and conditions and we still have the sound in our ears of that the weak voice of Pope Francis who was blessing Rome here | ||
| We have that fresh in our minds, in our hearts, in our ears, hearing his voice, Pope who was blessing Rome and giving his blessing to the world on that morning, on that day of Easter Sunday. | ||
| Allow me to continue that same blessing. | ||
| God loves everyone. | ||
| Evil will not prevail. | ||
| We are all in the hands of God. | ||
| So without fear, united, hand in hand, with God and among ourselves, we go forward. | ||
| We are disciples of Christ. | ||
| Christ goes before us. | ||
| Needs his light as the bridge between God and his love. | ||
| love. | ||
| May we all build bridges with dialogue and encounter so that we can all be one people, all in peace. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Pope Francis, for all you've done. | ||
| We're hearing the first words here of Pope Leo XIV, just elected Pope. | ||
| I'd like to also thank my brother Cardinals who chose me to be the successor of Peter and to walk along with you. | ||
| Searching all together for peace and justice and working together men and women faithful to Christ without fear to proclaim the gospel to be missionaries. | ||
| Pope Leo offering these initial words, which we're just translating on the fly here. | ||
| I'm a son of Saint Augustine and I'm an Augustinianoi Vescovo. | ||
| With you I am a Christian, and for you I am a bishop. | ||
| May we all walk together towards that to the place that God has prepared for us. | ||
| May we walk together to the church of Rome. | ||
| special greeting, as Bishop of Rome, of course, a special greeting. | ||
| We've got to look at how we can together be a missionary church, a church that builds bridges, that is always open to receive everyone, just like in this square, to receive everyone. | ||
| So welcome, everyone, our charity, our dialogue and love. | ||
| And now, a greeting in Spanish. | ||
| Please allow me here to. | ||
| To all of you, but especially to the people of my diocese of Chiclayo in Peru. | ||
| Where we had such faithful people accompanying the bishop, and we had such faithful people helping the bishop. | ||
| To all of you, the people of Rome and of Italy. | ||
| Camina, una chiesa que... | ||
| We need to be a synodal church, a church that's a pilgrim that shows charity always Especially is charitable to those who are suffering. | ||
| Oggi, il giorno della supplica alla Madonna di Pompei. | ||
| Today is the day of praying to the Madonna of Pompei. | ||
| Our Blessed Mother Mary always wants to be close to us. | ||
| She always wants to intercede for us to her love. | ||
| Let us pray together for this new nation for all of the church for peace in the world that she will help us give us a special grace, our mother. | ||
| Hail Mary. | ||
| For grace, the Lord is with you. | ||
| You are blessed among us. | ||
| Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. | ||
| Santa Maria, Mother of God, pray for us, sinners, now and at the end, Pope Leo the XIV. | ||
| Pope Leo the 14th, very interesting. | ||
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A few themes coming out already there for me, talking about peace. | |
| May my greeting of peace enter into your hearts and reach your families, all people, wherever you are, all peoples of the entire planet. | ||
| May peace be with you. | ||
| God's peace be with you, he said. | ||
| And here we see him in his, after having given that opening and beautiful words. | ||
| Continuing also the message of Pope Francis, where he even said in Spanish and Italian, and the Holy Father Pope Leo and all receiving or hearing this through new technology, online, everywhere, plenary indulgence and the formula established by the Church of the Church. | ||
| We pray to Almighty God and guide the church and the entire world now. | ||
| He'll give this most solemn blessing to the entire world, to all of you joining us. | ||
| So we now prepare ourselves to receive this solemn blessing wherever we are, at home, in your car, at work, wherever you are. | ||
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Sancti Apostoli Petrus et Paulus, de quorum potestate et autoritate confidimus. | |
| So, ipsi intercedat pro nobis ad dominum. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| The Holy Apostles, Peter and Paul. | ||
| Precibos et Meritis, Beate Marie, Semper Virginis. | ||
| And we also pray to the Blessed Mary. | ||
| Beate Ioannis Baptiste et Sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli et Omnium Sanctorum. | ||
| Miseriatur Vestri Omnipotens Deus et emisis omnibus peccatis vestris. | ||
| Perducat vos, Jesus Christus, ad vitam eternam. | ||
| Indulgentiam, absolutionem et remissionem omnium peccatorum vestrorum. | ||
| Spatium vere et fructuose penitentie, cor semper penitens et emendationem vite. | ||
| graciam, et consolazionum, sancti spiritus, et finalem perseverantium in bonis, operibus, tribu at vovis, omnipotense, et misericors dominus. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Et Benedicio dei Omnipotentes Patris et Phili, et spiritu sancti di sendat superbos et maniat samper. | ||
| And we just heard the blessing there, received the blessing there of Pope Leo XIV and to the world, to the city. | ||
| This most solemn blessing to all of us and all of you visiting and watching out there. | ||
| What is interesting, he's smiling, and I found very touching the fact that he made reference to his former diocese in Peru and spoke to them in Spanish. | ||
| You know, very, very touching moment, and now they are thanking them for how they accompanied him. | ||
| And so from this moment, I think we all accompany the new Holy Father with our prayers and support. | ||
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And once again, he asked, just like Pope Francis did before, he asked for continued prayers. | |
| You know, this is a heavy task, as we all noted before. | ||
| And he continues to ask all of us for prayers and also for the intercession of Our Lady on the special feast day. | ||
| And he asked us especially to be bridge builders, as he is Hantifax, a bridgeville as well, but that we should all be building bridges, both here in the diocese of Rome, in Italy, and throughout the world, and that we should build that on fraternity and on solidarity and on the love. | ||
| So many times, Pope Francis told us the same. | ||
| You know, there have been false debates, I think, in leading up to this about unity and diversity and things, but he's made it clear that he's looking for us to be united, but also to be the bridge builders and to bring about peace in the world through the bridge family. | ||
| We're seeing this stunning footage or this video of our Vaddidrone there going close to the balcony and seeing, I'm thinking for the first time, unique images like this up close of the new Pope. | ||
| There's about 100,000 people we're getting in the square right now who are seeing Pope Leo XIV for the first time. | ||
| This is from Piam Pinenta from the border of Texas and Mexico that Pope Francis spoke to him when he was there. | ||
| It's amazing all the people who are appearing in the square now and the connections they had present and past. | ||
| Again, quite a novelty, an American Pope. | ||
| And here he is waving. | ||
| And again, once again, you can see the emotion and sense of responsibility of the office. | ||
| Well, this is a beautiful view seeing from inside the logger looking out what he would see as he waves to the crowds. | ||
| It's a very interesting place there today. | ||
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I don't know if you remember, we used to do the commentaries from that place. | |
| Indeed, indeed, commentary positions. | ||
| Behind off to the side of that big hall are blessings. | ||
| And after those blessings, we would greet the Pope as well. | ||
| Briefly afterward, either in Easter or at Christmas. | ||
| Well, that's our historic moment. | ||
| The warning is over. | ||
| We have a new warning in the Argonaut. | ||
| And, you know, oh, Monceau Vito, you were telling us here about, I mean, you were translating the prayer. | ||
| This is the prayer that is read, or the blessing, I'm sorry, the orchid order. | ||
| So may the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, in whose power and authority we trust, intercede us for us before the Lord through the prayers and merits of Blessed Mary of the Virgin, St. Michael the Archangel, St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, all the saints. | ||
| May Almighty God have mercy on you and forgive you all your sins, and may Jesus Christ be to everyone. | ||
| And then he speaks about the indulgence and the absolution and remission of sins. | ||
| And then he also gives the blessing. | ||
| I'm not entitled to give the Oveat Ove blessing, but we heard it from him. | ||
| But again, it's the most solemn blessing that he gives and imparts. |