President Donald Trump congratulated Pope Leo XIV on the election of Pope after the historic Conclave, which first positioned Americans on the helm of the Catholic Church.
Trump turned X shortly after Pope Leo XIV first appeared in St. Peter Square.
“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was simply named Pope,” Trump wrote.
“It’s such an honor to understand he’s the primary American Pope. What pleasure and what a beautiful honor for our nation. I stay up for assembly Pope Leo XIV. It will probably be a really significant second!” the president added.
Prevost’s brother Cardinals chosen him with a shorter conclave than anticipated. Two-thirds of votes are required to elect the Pope.
The pace he was chosen stunned many because it was thought of an extended shot choice on account of his American heritage.
However, the Pope, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, is now a part of a lineage of 267 popes relationship again to St. Peter.
As identified by Breitbart News’ senior editor Rebecca Mansour, taking up the identify “Leo” may point out an affinity for Pope Leo XIII.
His selection because the Pope’s identify is probably an attention-grabbing selection meant to evoke the beloved Leo XIII, who wrote the good 1890 Leorum Novarum, who was informed to Catholics as a populist doc defending the rights of staff within the altering world and defending the rights of the extraordinary.
Jim Pinkerton of Breitbart wrote concerning the significance of Rerum Novarum in his 2019 Labor Day essay by highlighting the Op-Ed, the place Marco Rubio evoked Rerum Novarum.
Pope Leo XIV supplied blessings to the folks of St. Peter’s Square. There, throughout his first publication after the Conclave, he spoke Italian and Spanish, not English.
“This is the peace of Christ raised from the useless. God is close to you,” he stated.