“I must have been surprised – he was not in my list,” Matthew Laferty, 39, director of the Methodist Ecumen Office in Rome. Originally from Crestline, Ohio, he is in charge of the relationship of his Protestant organization with the Catholic Church. “I think the choice shows that there was probably a compromise among cardinals.”
Americans seem to feel most people feel within the square regardless of nationality. Whether these were people who keep a giant Lebanese flag or brazilian clays that ride on the shoulder of a friend, draped in the Brazilian flag, making peace signs with both hands.
Thousands of miles in the west in New York, television news cameras lined the sidewalk in front of the Cathedral of St. Patrick, Ikonic Midtown Manhattan Catholic Church.
Alura Marina, 60, was in Mass in St. Patrick, when a new pope was announced. Marina said the church began to play the “Star Banner”, to encourage the church churches to erupt.
“I said, ‘Woah!’ I put my hand on my heart and said: The new Pope is American? “Marini said, who comes to St. Patrick every day,
Marini said he hopes that Leo would mimic the late Pope Francis, which is popular among progressive tilted Catholic New Yorkers.
“I hope the Papa embraces everything, in no way discrimination,” she said. “Embrace everything as they come.”
Maria Andrade (58) said that in the last three to four years she saw more events in her church, the Cathedral of St. Patrick, targeted at younger Catholics. She said that the choice of Lea would give a faith that the trend that will be in recent years will continue.
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