The American Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church described this week the historic Pope Conclave concluded that it was relatively easy to stretch out the arms or not in obvious politics.
When their work was finished, and as the outside world waited for the new Pope's identity, the cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel “become wild,” recalled on Friday when a man they personally elected said he would take the name Leo.
They could be a sign of the Pope's plan, they said.
“Leo was the first modern pope, who has introduced the J. Capich Cardinal, who defends workers' rights and can pass on to children who can pass on what workers need to support their families and make a living.
Pope Leo wrote a groundbreaking Pope document called Lelam Novarum in 1891, addressing the needs and dignity of the working class, sparking a movement of social justice during the Industrial Revolution.
“It's not a defense of property rights to accumulate just what people want, but for poor people who have no property to lose their property,” said Cardinal Kyuchich.
The issue of workers' rights, immigration and bridges throughout the division appears to be in shape as an issue that can define the legacy of Robert Francis Prevast, now Pope Leo XIV.
“I'm going to hear more about this,” Cardinal Cutic said. “There might be Rerum Novarum 2.0.”
After they left Casa Santa Marta, a guesthouse in the quarantined Vatican, six Cardinals from the US were published on the stage at Pontifical North American University on Friday afternoon, taking their seats in red velvet chairs, which were first published since the election of the first Americans. The seventh cardinal took part. This is Christophe Pierre, the ambassador of the Holy See to the United States.
It was a very rare opportunity, and so many American church leaders spoke together at the same stage, and in many cases, with obvious consensus, was a sign of the perfect idiosyncraticity of this moment in the history of the American Catholic Church.
Pope Leo XIV was the first to be born in the United States, but as Cardinal Daniel N. Dinald, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston Houston, said, the Cardinals presented him as a “citizen of the whole world.”
Within the Conclave, the fact that he came from the United States was “almost negligible” and “almost surprising,” said Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York agreed. “I don't think the fact that Prevost Cardinal was from the US had a lot of weight,” he said.
The Cardinals were asked if they saw the American election in an effort to establish President Trump's counterweight, he denied. “Would he want to build a bridge over Donald Trump? I think,” he said. “But he would want to build a bridge with leaders of all nations.”
When asked if President Trump wanted Rome to come to Pope Leo XIV to take office, the American Cards temporarily suspended. “Why not?” Ambassador Pierre Cardinal said, jumping into silence.
Cardinal Dinald has expanded the importance of the name Leo.
“I live in the fifth century, so I want to take him to Leo the Great,” said Cardinal Dinald. “Leo the Great was the Pope when the church was really confused about what was going on around the gates of the city of Rome.”
Leo the Great helped save the city, and at the same time “he preached Christ crucified,” he said.
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey recalled casting the vote. He carried it to the front of the Sistine Chapel, held it high, and presented it before God, and Michelangelo's “last judgment” stared at him.
He knew Cardiac Prevost for nearly 30 years from his US hometown and their world ministries. Now they were behind a closed door in one of the most secret rooms in the world, with 131 cardinals, including eight from their home countries.
He searched around the table for his friends.
“I saw Bob,” Cardinal Tobin said.
“I was praying for him because I couldn't imagine what would happen to a human when you were faced with something like that,” he said.
When 89 votes were reached, the room fell into applause. “I was grateful yesterday when it was my turn and he said yes to such a great responsibility,” Cardinal Tobin said.
After leaving the Sistine Chapel, the Cardinals passed through the maze of the Vatican Hall, and Pope Leo XIV was on the balcony. Cardinal Cutic looked out from the balcony towards his left and felt a rush of cheers coming from the crowd that had stretched all the way to Tiber.
“We might ship some pizzas for him,” he said.
Soon, all the cardinals returned to Casa Santa Marta for a festive meal. They then toasted the new Pope. The new Pope went from the table to the table.
“He really knew how to work in the room,” Cardinal Kyuchi-chi said.
Washington's Archbishop Emeritus and the first African American Cardinal said the Wilton D. Gregory Cardinal Cardinal was “very effectively” involved in the smaller group discussions that Cardinals had before they voted. “It wasn't that he stood up and gave this overwhelmingly persuasive speech that surprised his body,” he said.
Listening to a press conference at Pontifical North American College on Friday, the seminarian spoke about the final Thanksgiving, Prevost Cardinal, which had climbed the hill to celebrate by climbing its hill from the Vatican.
Next month, Washington student Deacon Gerald Gaye, 31, pulled up a photo of the moment.
“The big thing is we have homemade pumpkin pie that is difficult to find in Italy,” he said. They sent the Pope home an extra.
