Jason DeRose
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Peter's Square today to mark the official beginning of Pope Leo XIV's papacy. Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio among the foreign dignitaries at the mass in which Leo called for peace and unity. NPR's Ruth Sherlock was there.
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The Pope told cardinals that he chose the name Leo because of a previous Leo, Leo XIII, and his encyclical Verum Novarum. That document offers expansive social teaching on economic justice and human dignity, specifically related to the Industrial Revolution. The current Pope Leo says a similar challenge is emerging today due to artificial intelligence.
He also told cardinals that he envisions a church that listens to the voices of lay Catholics. That approach follows in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, who convened synods to hear the voices of people in pews from around the world. Jason DeRose, NPR News, Rome.
Up First from NPR · Scene From Vatican City, Life Of Pope Leo XIV, China Trade Talks · 9 May 2025
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Well, Pope Leo is 69 years old, which makes him a bit on the younger side for popes. He's got quite some time left in him. He was an undergraduate at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he majored in mathematics. Like Pope Francis, he's a member of a religious order, in Prevost's case, the Augustinians, who focus on missionary work and education.
Prevost, now Pope Leo, went to seminary at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and he did his doctorate here in Rome. He spent significant parts of his ministry in Peru. During his greeting from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square yesterday, though, he spoke in both Italian and Spanish, but did not significantly, I think, speak in English.
And he served on the Pontifical Commission on Latin America, a place he knows well, given his time in Peru.
Well, here's what Cardinal Prevost told the Vatican's official news agency prior to his election as pope about what he thinks church leadership should be.
And Steve, that's very similar to what Pope Francis was fond of saying, that a pastor who's a shepherd should smell like his sheep.
That's right, survivors of clergy sexual abuse say Cardinal Prevost did not do enough to address the issue as a bishop or archbishop or cardinal. But Steve, that's true of many in church leadership. Now the question is how he'll respond to victims going forward. and how he handles abusive priests and those who covered up for them. He's also come under criticism for comments on LGBTQ people.
Back in 2012, he lamented what he called the culture's sympathy with, quote, the homosexual lifestyle. And he spoke out against a government plan in Peru to teach about gender in public schools. He called promotion of, quote, gender ideology confusing and said such thinking creates genders that don't exist.
Well, I think that he was a close ally with Pope Francis and as such will probably be willing to stand up to the Trump administration in the same way that the Vatican has for the last dozen years, talking out against the treatment of migrants, talking out against the treatment of people in Gaza and the way the war is being conducted there.
So it could be somebody who's willing to go head to head and a very prominent American figure willing to go head to head with another prominent American figure, the American president.
Well, I think it's stunning. Prevost's name had come up, of course, because of his position there in the Vatican. He's considered well-qualified given his pastoral and administrative experience, but the U.S. is not the center of the Catholic world. And Vatican watchers said the U.S. has enough global power already.
And the church, you know, Steve, is far more vibrant in other places, places where it's growing, like in Latin America and Africa and Asia. You know, Pope Francis, in fact, dramatically diversified the College of Cardinals during his papacy to reflect that. Many more cardinals from other parts of the world, but ones who chose an American.
It is important to note that while Pope Leo is from the United States, he spent much of his life and ministry outside of the U.S., in Peru and at the Vatican. So he does bring a truly global perspective to the job.
Well, as much as there have been lots of conversations about church politics and global affairs, today is a day of religious ceremony and spiritual preparation leading up to the votes. A morning mass in St. Peter's Basilica, which is the only public event. A procession from the Vatican's Pauline Chapel to the Sistine Chapel while chanting the Litany of Saints.
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