Newspapers around the world on Friday dealt with the election of a new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, with large photos, plays words and nods at his nationalities.
Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago, wrote history as the first North -American pope, and many gossip magazines and Broadsheets played his background as an American.
Many newspapers used the Latin expression “Habemus Papam”, which means “we have a pope.” For English newspapers it was a rare appearance of a strange sentence in a head.
Cardinal Dominique Mamberti of France used that sentence and led to cheers, after he originated on the papal balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to introduce the new pope.
Overwhelming, newspapers with images of Leo XIV walked as he first greeted the world as pope, waving to crowds from the papal balcony.
L’Oservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, which is in Italian, had a spread of a full page with a Latin head that translated into: “We have a pope. Robert Francis Prevost who gave himself the name Leo XIV.”
Many foreign points of sale emphasized the American roots of Pope Leo XIV.
The Irish daily mirror led with “Let Us Pray” and Le Temps, a Swiss French -speaking newspaper, went with “Habemus Papam”.
The sun, a British tabloid, explained “God blessing American.”
Newspapers in Chicago emphasized the pope, who grew up in Dolton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, as a hero of the city.
The Chicago Tribune claimed Pope Leo XIV for the city, Write ‘Chicago’s pope’.
The front page of the Chicago Sun-Times was “Da Pope!” In a brutal allusion on the Chicago Bears, the football team has the nickname by fans as ‘Da Bears’.
The Inquirer of PhiladelphiaWho bore the head “an American pope” was quickly noticed in a subhead that is Pope Leo XIV an alumnus of Villanova University, the Catholic school located in a suburb of Philadelphia.
While Corriere della Sera van Milan said, “Il Papa Americano,” said Peru’s Correo “Un Papa Peruano.”
Although Pope Leo XIV is not of the Peruvian birth, some have in the country Claim him Like one of them. He lived in Peru for many years as a missionary, before he served from 2015 to 2023 as the bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo, a city in North Perpu,.
El Mercurio, a Chilean newspaper, compromised in his head and called Pope Leo XIV both Peruvian and American. (He is a double citizen.)
Some newspapers decided to manage with the papal name of the pope instead of his background or nationality.
Many points of sale, from Diário de Notícias in Portugal and Libération in France, had headlines with the text ‘Leo’. These points of sale chose to publish a more pious attitude that Pope Leo XIV presented with his hands clamped in prayer.
Others quoted the first message of Pope Leo XIV as the leader of the Catholic Church: “” Peace Be With You “, read The head of San Francisco Chronicle.
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