{"id":111695,"date":"2025-05-18T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111695\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:40:10","slug":"world-leaders-descend-on-rome-for-pope-leos-inauguration-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111695\/","title":{"rendered":"World leaders descend on Rome for Pope Leo\u2019s inauguration \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Robert Prevost, a former missionary and teacher, was chosen by cardinals in a secretive conclave this month that lasted barely 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The first American pope, his papacy begins at a time of crisis of U.S. leadership, as the Trump administration seeks to roll back Washington\u2019s centrality in multinational organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In his first week in the job, Leo has signaled that he intends to put peace at the center of his pontificate, saying that \u201cit is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/new-pope-leo-xiv-offers-vatican-ukraine-peace-talks-putin-zelenskyy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/new-pope-leo-xiv-offers-vatican-ukraine-peace-talks-putin-zelenskyy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peacemakers that make history<\/a>.\u201d His first words in St. Peter\u2019s Square on the night of his election were \u201cPeace be with you all\u201d and he has offered the Vatican as a mediator in global conflicts, saying war is \u201cnever inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, he arrived an hour before the ceremony started to tour the piazza on his open-topped popemobile. Flanked by 12 security guards, with helicopters buzzing overhead and sharpshooters on the terraces overlooking the square, he greeted crowds in and around St. Peter\u2019s, waving at well-wishers and lifting babies into the air for a blessing.<\/p>\n<p>In his homily, Leo outlined his priorities, calling for \u201ca reconciled world in a time when \u201cwe still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, violence, prejudice, the fear of difference, and an economic paradigm that exploits the Earth\u2019s resources and marginalizes the poorest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He called on Christians to unite with other religions and \u201call people of good will, in order to build a new world where peace reigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of the ceremony, Leo was greeted by cardinals vowing loyalty to him and kissing his hand. And he received two items: a liturgical vestment known as a pallium, a strip of lambswool that represents his role as a shepherd, and a fisherman\u2019s ring with a design of St. Peter holding the keys to heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinal Robert Prevost, a former missionary and teacher, was chosen by cardinals in a secretive conclave this month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48480,6659,32,33,34,2440,13,2348,50696,601,2820,2129,2452,547,12,46201,46,21946,41442,811,182,14,657,49,1220,19276,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-111695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-citizenship","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-giorgia-meloni","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-history","16":"tag-holy-see","17":"tag-jd-vance","18":"tag-marco-rubio","19":"tag-mark-carney","20":"tag-media","21":"tag-mobile","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-peru","24":"tag-policy","25":"tag-pope-francis","26":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","27":"tag-security","28":"tag-social-media","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-ukraine","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","33":"tag-vatican","34":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","35":"tag-war","36":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114528886916818949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}