{"id":528729,"date":"2025-05-08T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=528729"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:27:13","slug":"vatican-pietro-parolin-elected-pope-takes-the-name-francis-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/vatican-pietro-parolin-elected-pope-takes-the-name-francis-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Habemus Papam: Robert Prevost becomes Leo XVI, 267th pope of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The wait is over in St. Peter\u2019s Square. American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope, taking the name Leo XVI, as officially announced with the traditional <em>Habemus Papam<\/em> from the central balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica. The thousands of faithful gathered erupted in applause and emotion at the news of the first-ever American to lead the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chosen after two days of deliberations in the Sistine Chapel, the 69-year-old succeeds Pope Francis\u2014Jorge Mario Bergoglio\u2014who passed away just over two weeks ago. With his election, Prevost becomes the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a milestone moment for its 1.4 billion adherents around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A universal responsibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>White smoke billowed above the Vatican shortly after 6:10 p.m., signaling that the 133 cardinal electors had reached a consensus. As tradition dictates, it took just over an hour for the official announcement to follow\u2014a wait consistent with past conclaves (1 hour and 53 minutes in 2005 for Benedict XVI, and 1 hour and 6 minutes in 2013 for Francis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowd in St. Peter\u2019s Square was visibly moved. \u201cIt\u2019s the weight of this enormous responsibility falling on his shoulders,\u201d said S\u00e9gol\u00e8ne, a worshipper interviewed by our correspondent Nicolas Rocca. \u201cTo think that someone goes from leading a diocese to carrying the entire world&#8230; That\u2019s what being Catholic means\u2014universal. It\u2019s overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A new face for a new chapter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Prevost\u2019s election comes at a time of global uncertainty, where spiritual, social, and political pressures converge on the Church\u2019s mission. His choice of the name Leo XVI\u2014evoking past reformers and guardians of tradition\u2014suggests a papacy that may emphasize both universality and doctrinal steadiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the coming days, the Vatican is expected to outline the new pope\u2019s initial priorities, schedule, and symbolic gestures. Already, the eyes of the world are fixed on this new spiritual leader, tasked with writing the next chapter in the long history of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wait is over in St. Peter\u2019s Square. American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope, taking the name Leo XVI, as officially announced with the traditional Habemus Papam from the central balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica. The thousands of faithful gathered erupted in applause and emotion at the news of the first-ever American to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":528734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-company-news-benews","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528735,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528729\/revisions\/528735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528729"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528729"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}