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Pope Leo XIV celebrates the Mass with the Cardinal Voters in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City.
The new Pope is “very discreet, very affable”, and is “particularly united” to Portugal. “God couldn’t have done better,” says Américo Aguiar.
The Portuguese Cardinal António Martoformer Bishop of Leiria-Fatima, has already invited the new Pope, Leo XIV, to visit the Sanctuary of Fatima.
At a press conference of Portuguese cardinals who were housed at the Portuguese College in Rome on the occasion of the Conclave, António Marto said he said to Leo XIV: “I bring votes for happiness, I bring the vote of all of the Pilgrims of Fatima” and “at an opportune moment We expect a visit of you”.
“Thank you very much,” said the Pope in Portuguese twice, according to Marto, who praised the “Marian Devotion” of former Cardinal Robert Prevost.
Leo XIV, who prayed the Hail Mary in his greeting of the balcony, is “Marian” and “has a great devotion to Our Lady,” said Cardinal Luso. “The most important thing was to continue Pope Francis’ legacy,” he said.
“I think Pope Leo XIV is a person full of proximity, affability, reception, listening”, Said the Portuguese cardinal at a press conference in Rome.” It has the experience of what liberal capitalism is without rules of the United States and what is the extreme poverty of Peru. “
“You have very conducive to this role,” said Cardinal Manuel Clemente. “He is American and his family has many other prenationalities, which gives him a basis for a universal role.”
The cardinal Américo Aguiar He said that “God could not have done better,” when we have an American Pope son of migrants in the center of world geopolitics with all the problems we have. “
“I am very happy with what we were able to interpret and feel and materialize in what is the very happy election of our dear Pope Leo XIV,” said the Portuguese cardinal. “The Cardinal Prevost It’s someone very discreet, very affable. We are talking about someone who has a preparation, a very diverse base. ”
“It has a profound knowledge of our country,” says Lisbon Patriarch Rui Valério ao. “It is particularly joined to Portugal” and “speaks Portuguese perfectly”. A lot for being Augustinian, a “congregation very present in Portugal”with “two communities, in São Domingos de Rana and Póvoa de Santa Iria”.
Since yesterday Pope Leo XIV was in Lisbon for the World Youth Day, but it was in Rome that the Patriarch of Lisbon spoke to the new Pontiff “About Portugal and the situation of the world”.
A New Pope’s inaugural mass is scheduled for May 18which coincides with the early legislative elections of Portugal.
