In a video sighted by a DisturbingTema on the YouTube page of NBC, the new pontiff, in his first address in Italian at St. Peter’s Square as Pope Leo XIV, eulogised the late Pope Francis.
He also thanked the cardinals for choosing him to lead the Catholic Church. “I should also like to thank all my cardinal brethren who have chosen me to be the successor of Peter and to walk with you as a united Church, always seeking peace and justice, seeking to work with men and women who are faithful to Jesus Christ, without fear to proclaim the gospel and be missionaries,” he said.
