Trump Hails the Election of First US Pope as a ‘Great Honor’

I don’t like the message it sends to the world,

said Tabiani, who works in forestry

I was certainly surprised — he was not on my list,

said Matthew Laferty, 39, director of the Methodist Ecumenical Office in Rome

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We would like someone who is doctrinally oriented, and who doesn’t want to change that doctrine,

said Tommy Maddox, hinting at the more traditionalist, conservative wing of Catholicism, which had been critical of some of the late Pope Francis’ more progressive pronouncements

We’ll have to do some more reading on him, that’s for sure,

said Jack Maddox, 28, who is based in Georgia and about to leave the Army to train to become an architect

Francis did a lot to bring those people back into the church and I'm hoping Pope Leo XIV will do even more to bring them back,

she added

I think it should have gone elsewhere,

she added,

A lot of those people had fallen away by the wayside because of the pedophilia that was going on with the priests,

she said

I hope the pope will embrace everybody, no discrimination in any way,

she said

I see a revival, and I see it in New York City, of people looking for faith,

she said

Who in our lifetime would have thought that we would see a North American Holy Father?”

said Father Thomas Montanaro, an American priest with the Legionaries of Christ

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JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”

It appears he was directly critical of Vance’s insistence that Christians should put people of their own country first, apparently tweeting

It is such an honour to realise that he is the first American Pope,

the US president wrote on his social media account – but there’s a twist

It’s just amazing being in Rome and having an American [as Pope] and looking forward to see what good he does for the Catholic Church,

said Kelly, who is from Maine

I’m still in shock,

said Fr John Nahrgang of the diocese of Phoenix in Arizona

Of all the American cardinals, he’s probably – in my view – the American cardinal with the most international experience, because he served as a bishop in South America and because he headed up a Vatican congregation. He probably speaks the best in most languages of most of the American cardinals,

said Fr Nahrgang, who is studying theology in Rome

Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa.”

When the white smoke started to billow, indicating that the conclave had come to a decision, the crowd chanted

I like [Cardinal Luis Antonio] Tagle from the Philippines, I like [Cardinal Matteo] Zuppi from Italy,

she said

The only goal was to see smoke and we’ve seen smoke twice. So we’re done,

she said