Upon his arrival to St. Peter's Basilica balcony on Thursday afternoon, May 8, the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV adorned a bright ... cross (large cross worn as a necklace), Morrill explained.

Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M, 74, was one of the seven Brazilian cardinals who voted in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, a man he knew already from the Synod on Synodality.