Inés San Martín

2 weeks ago | thebostonpilot.com | Inés San Martín |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Mark Valley |Michael Reardon

Your browser does not support the audio element. ROME (OSV News) -- As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV -- elected May 8 -- attention quickly turned to the first moments of his pontificate. The first weeks of a papacy often give a hint as to how the entire pontificate will look. This is what the seven days of papacy tell about the first American pope and how his predecessors spent their honeymoon in the Vatican.

3 weeks ago | thebostonpilot.com | Inés San Martín |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

ROMA (OSV News) -- En un país donde más del 90% de la población se identifica como cristiana -- y casi tres cuartas partes como católica -- la elección de un nuevo Papa es más que un asunto vaticano. Es algo personal. El 8 de mayo, cuando el humo blanco se elevó sobre la Plaza de San Pedro, señalando la elección de León XIV, el Perú pareció contener la respiración. Las escuelas enmudecieron. Los restaurantes encendieron sus televisores.

4 weeks ago | thebostonpilot.com | Inés San Martín |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe |Lucia Silecchia |Greg Kandra

ROME (OSV News) -- He enjoys gelato after lunch, plays tennis weekly in the gardens of the Augustinian Curia in Rome and roots passionately for the Chicago White Sox. But now, the man once known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost -- a quiet, thoughtful Augustinian with decades of missionary experience in Peru -- is Pope Leo XIV, the 266th successor of St. Peter. For his brothers in the Augustinian order, his election has been met with a mixture of "joyful disbelief" and deep spiritual affirmation.

1 month ago | angelusnews.com | Mike Cisneros |Pablo Kay |Inés San Martín |Kate Scanlon

Hours after U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected during the conclave in Rome and named Pope Leo XIV, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez called it “a great day for the whole world” during a press conference on May 8. “As everyone probably knows, the word ‘Catholic’ means universal,” Gomez said at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

1 month ago | angelusnews.com | Pablo Kay |Inés San Martín |Kate Scanlon |Justin Mclellan

After a few days in Rome covering the build-up to the conclave, I had a clear “white smoke” plan. It went like this: I would be in St. Peter’s Square to witness the white smoke from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, in order to capture the crowd’s reaction. Then I could run up the stairs to the deck of the southern colonnade of St. Peter’s Square, the right “arm” of Bernini’s famous columns, where credentialed journalists are allowed to take pictures and video during major events.