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VATICAN – In a awesome of continuity, Pope Francis’s successor didn’t deterioration the papal reddish velvet loafers to his inaugural Mass earlier cardinals Friday astatine the Sistine Chapel.
The caller person of the Roman Catholic Church urged the implicit 130 cardinals “to determination aside” and “make” themselves “small” to marque mode for Jesus Christ
Pope Leo XIV allowed women to basal down a podium successful beforehand of “The Last Judgment,” a fresco by Michelangelo, to contiguous the 2 readings.
“There are galore settings successful which the Christian religion is considered absurd -- meant for the anemic and unintelligent. Settings wherever different securities are preferred, similar technology, money, success, power, oregon pleasure,” the pontiff said adding that determination are adjacent baptized Catholics who unrecorded successful “a authorities of applicable atheism” due to the fact that they “reduce” Jesus Christ to a charismatic person oregon superman.
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The caller Chicago-born Bishop of Rome, formerly Augustinian Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, is simply a dual U.S. and Peruvian citizen. He spoke successful English to the cardinals and delivered his homily successful Italian.
“A deficiency of religion is often tragically accompanied by the nonaccomplishment of meaning successful life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of quality dignity, the situation of the household and truthful galore different wounds,” the pontiff said.
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In the U.S., Louis and John Prevost said they were arrogant and remembered that erstwhile their member was a 6-year-old 1st-grade pupil a neighbour predicted helium would beryllium pope 1 day.
The archetypal U.S.-born pope successful the past of the religion with 1.4 cardinal members is acceptable to conscionable with cardinals connected Saturday, present his archetypal Sunday blessing astatine noon, and conscionable with journalists connected Monday.
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