Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.

He said he was “happily shocked,” and that he had a burning question: was new Pope a White ... the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time as pope, Leo XIV addressed in Spanish ...

The 69-year-old new pontiff appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and ... cardinals for selecting him and spoke in Italian, Spanish and Latin. Having spent years working in Peru, he ...

He spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years ... wept as the crowd shouted “Viva il papa!” after the white smoke wafted into the late afternoon sky at 6:07 ...

More than an hour after the white smoke, the new pope stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica ... but at one point he switched to Spanish to address his “beloved diocese” in Peru.

They were both delighted that Pope Leo briefly spoke from the balcony in Spanish during his first address ... his flight home this evening. As the white smoke billowed from the chimney and ...

the white smoke (fumata bianca in Italian) erupting from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the formula habemus papam pronounced by the cardinal protodeacon from the balcony of St. Peter’s ...

The history of the white smoke, which indicates that the cardinals ... A version of this story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated ...