The first American Pope
Robert Francis Prevost was elected 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church yesterday. He was the first Pope from the USA. Read a copy of his speech.
The choice corresponded to a long -term conviction that church leaders would never choose a Pope from a global superpower that already had significant influence. “In a world that seems to be upside down, old taboos also break in the Vatican, where the idea of an American Pope has been unimaginable for generations,” said Jason Horowitz, our head of Rome Bureau.
See the moment when Leo XIV appeared as a Pope.
When the ideological camps fought before the consequence of whether the integrative agenda of the last Pope, Francis, or a conservative teaching was supposed to return, the supporters had recorded the then Cardinal Prevost (69) as a balanced alternative. In his first comments on the amount that had gathered on the St. Peter Square, Leo attached great importance to building bridges.
His choice was greeted in the Vatican city, but also in Chicago, where he was born, and in Peru, where he spent more than two decades, greeted with joy. President Trump called his selection “a great honor” for the United States.
Who is Leo? The 69-year-old Pope, born in Chicago, spent a large part of his life outside the United States. He served as a missionary, pastor, teacher and bishop in Peru and finally became a Peruvian citizen. Until the death of Francis, he held one of the most influential Vatican contributions in the management of the office that selects and manages bishops worldwide. Here is what we still know about him.
What’s next: Leo is celebrated today with the cardinals that have chosen him in the Sistine Chapel Mass. He will recite a prayer in the St. Peter Basilica on Sunday. And on Monday he will meet with journalists in the Vatican.
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Trump’s trade agreement with Great Britain had details included
The United States and Great Britain intend to sign a trade agreement that increases the market access for billions of US dates of US exports and back some of the punitive tariffs for British products, said President Trump yesterday. It was the first agreement that the Trump government has reached since it imposed higher tariffs on its trading partners.
Representatives of the two nations will meet in the coming months and many details will still have to work out. The 10 percent tariff that Trump imposed in April in April and other nations remains, but the tariffs are withdrawn to British steel, aluminum and automobiles. In return, Great Britain will open the access to beef, ethanol and other US products.
The news is an urgently needed political victory for Prime Minister Keir Starrer from Great Britain and the justification for his strategy to cultivate Trump usefully.
Context: Whatever the final deal runs, it is more important for Great Britain than Great Britain for the United States, which takes number 11 among the United States large trading partners, while the United States are Britain’s largest partners.
Who is next ?: EU officials have created a list of US goods worth 95 billion euros, which they could address with higher tariffs. Hours later Trump said that US officials “intend to complete a deal with Europe”. A first round of the US China trade talks is expected to take place in Switzerland this weekend.
The danger grows in South Asia
India and Pakistan seem dangerous to escalate their armed confrontation. Both countries said that their military sites were attacked and a heavy shelling and strikes were reported overnight on each side of their border overnight.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio spoke to leaders from both countries and emphasized the need for an “immediate de -escalation,” said the Foreign Ministry.
On the floor: In Jammu, an Indian city with about half a million people, parts of the city were heard last night, and the noises of explosions and sirens were heard.
Strategy: India is working on restricting Pakistan to international financial aid.
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