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"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

"In the face of this deepening crisis, how do we dare raise hope? Our answer is this: We do it together," said Yeb Sano, board director for the Laudato Si' Movement.

¿Estadounidense, peruano, francés? Tras la elección de Robert Francis Prevost Martínez, varios países reclaman al papa León XIV como 'suyo'. Pero su identidad no está en un pasaporte. "Roberto era un agustino para los agustinos", afirma una religiosa que lo acompañó en Perú y que recordó cómo su vocación de servicio se palpó en 2023, cuando el entonces obispo recorrió las calles de Chiclayo para llevar comida y suministros a las víctimas de las inundaciones. 

In his first appointment of a top-level official of the Roman Curia, Pope Leo XIV named Sr. Tiziana Merletti, a canon lawyer, to be secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

After stepping out to the main balcony as Pope Leo XIV, he mentioned no nationality. Instead, he identified himself as "a son of St. Augustine, an Augustinian."

The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems facing the worldwide Catholic Church that the new Pope Leo XIV must address.

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential Vatican Dicastery for Bishops. 

No man received 89 votes, or two-thirds of the 133 cardinal electors.