Inés San Martín

4 days 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.

6 days 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.

6 days 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.

6 days 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.

6 days ago | angelusnews.com | Inés San Martín |Kate Scanlon |Justin Mclellan |Cindy Wooden

On May 8, the world met its new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary and Vatican official, took the name Leo XIV. In his first public address from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the new pope made clear his vision: a missionary church, a synodal church and a church committed to building peace. "Peace be with you!" he began, repeating the Risen Christ's Easter greeting.