US Edition‘Habemus Papam’: Singapore’s Catholic archdiocese celebrates election of new pope, Leo XIV
- Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Pope on May 8, 2025, at 6:06 pm Rome time, succeeding Pope Francis.
- The election occurred during the conclave with 133 cardinal electors casting votes, following the death of Pope Francis and after two days of deliberations.
- Pope Leo XIV, aged 69 and born in Chicago in 1955, served many years as a missionary and bishop in northern Peru and was appointed cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023.
- Catholics in Singapore and around the world marked the election with prayers and messages, as local church leaders hailed the new pope as the Vicar of Christ and encouraged the faithful to pray for him.
- About a week after his election, Pope Leo XIV is set to be officially inaugurated in a ceremonial mass attended by international church leaders, marking a historic moment as the first American to hold the papacy.
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Asia Pacific Catholics react to news of Church’s first U.S.-born pontiff Pope Leo XIV
Singaporean theology student Dominic Nalpon managed to arrive at the center of St. Peter’s Square in time to hear the awaited “Habemus papam!” (“We have a pope!”) announcement and see the new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, on May 8, 2025. / Credit: ... [...]
Asia Pacific Catholics react to news of first U.S.-born pontiff Pope Leo XIV
Singaporean theology student Dominic Nalpon managed to arrive at the center of St. Peter’s Square in time to hear the awaited “Habemus papam!” (“We have a pope!”) announcement and see the new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, on May 8, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Dominic Nalpon Rome Newsroom, May 9, 2025 / 12:26 pm (CNA). From Europe to the Asia Pacific, millions of Catholics are celebrating the election of U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV as the 267th lea…
The prediction of Artificial Intelligence about who the new Pope would be: was it right with Leo XIV?
Three weeks after the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church now has a new Pope: Leon XIV. The white smoker surprised the majority of the faithful who followed from St. Peter's Square the result of the fourth vote of the conclave, until the cardinal proto-deacon Dominique François Joseph Mamberti has pronounced that of "Habemus Papam!", on the central balcony of the Vatican. In a procedure with a long tradition dating back to the origins of …
"Habemus papam": bells and applause at Notre-Dame-de-Paris after the election of Pope Leo XIV
The American Robert Francis Prevost became Thursday the 267th pontiff of history, seventeen days after the death of Pope Francis. "Improvisation" in Mass, applause... While the bells of Notre-Dame rang at the announcement of the election of the new pope, how did the Parisian faithful react?
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