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  • 5/19/2025
Pope Leo XIV marked the start of his pontificate on Sunday, May 18, by reaching out to conservatives who felt orphaned under his predecessor, calling for unity, vowing to preserve the Catholic Church’s heritage, and not rule like ‘an autocrat.’

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00:00Pope Leo XIV marked the start of his
00:04Montificate on Sunday, May 18, by reaching
00:06out to conservatives who felt orphaned
00:08by his predecessor, calling for unity,
00:11vowing to preserve the Catholic Church's
00:13heritage and not rule like an autocrat.
00:15After his first ride in the Popemobile
00:18through a crowd of up to 200,000 people
00:20in St. Peter's Square, Leo was officially
00:23installed as the 267th Pope of the Roman
00:25Catholic Church during an outdoor Mass.
00:28In his sermon, Read Influent Italian, Leo
00:31said he would continue Francis' work on
00:33social issues like fighting poverty and
00:35protecting the environment as leader of
00:37the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. He also
00:40vowed to face up to, quote, the questions,
00:43concerns, and challenges of today's world.
00:45As part of the ceremony, Leo received two
00:48symbolic items, a liturgical vestment known
00:51as a pallium, a sash of lamb's wool representing
00:53his role as a shepherd, and the fisherman's
00:56ring, recalling St. Peter, who was a fisherman.
00:59Pope Leo XIV is expected to live in the
01:02Vatican's Apostolic Palace, unlike the late
01:04Pope Francis, who chose to stay in a
01:06Vatican hotel instead. Meantime, Leo made
01:09his first Filipino appointment by choosing
01:12Father Dave Dean Capucao, a Bicolano priest,
01:15as the new Bishop of the Prelature of Infanta.
01:17Capucao will replace Bishop Bernardino Cortez,
01:20who turned 75 last year, the retirement age for bishops.
01:26He next International Italian
01:31States of the Prelature of Infanta Care.
01:34And he, he's on the first floor of his
01:37religion at the University of France.
01:38And that's the first floor of the Prelature of
01:40the Prelature of Infanta., who was a
01:41republished partner in his own 삶 of
01:4419時期.
01:45His first floor of our Prelature of Infantaare
01:48was brought to his farm and the
01:49Prelature of the Prelature of the Prelature of
01:50the Prelature of Infanta Care.
01:52And that's the same thing.

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