Pope Leo XVI will formally installed as Pontiff during the Mass of May 18, says the Vatican

Papa Leo XVI It will be formally installed as a pontiff when you have your inaugural public mass in the Plaza de San Pedro on May 18, said the Vatican. The first Pope born in the United States, previously Cardinal Robert Prevostwill also preside over your first general audience on May 21.

While I read He maintained his papacy’s first mass in the Sistine Chapel On Friday morning, the day after his choice, that service was for the cardinals of the Catholic Church and was not open to the public.

During the papal inauguration, a Mass is celebrated before political and religious leaders around the world. While world leaders are generally invited to attend the Mass for the beginning of the pontificate, most nations tend to send official delegations instead of heads of state.

The Mass used to include the papal coronation ceremony, but that part of the celebration has not been included in the Mass since Pope John Paul I was officially installed as Pope in 1978. His predecessor, Pope Paul VI, was the last Pope to be crowned or use a papal tile.

The papal inauguration now involves the formal granting of the canopy, a white wool band adorned with crosses that are used with papal clothing, a symbol of the universal jurisdiction of the Pope.

Thursday, Born in Chicago Cardinal Robert Prevost69, his role as the next bishop of Rome, leader of the 1,400 million Catholics in the world was chosen and accepted. Prevost, the first Pope in the United States, chose Leo XIV as his papal name.

During his first homily after being chosen as Pope, Leo said he would be a “faithful administrator” of the Church and warned against Jesus to “a kind of leader or charismatic superman.”

He regretted that there are many environments in the modern world where people favor “technology, money, success, power or pleasure” about Christian faith. “These are contexts in which it is not easy to preach the gospel and testify to their truth, where believers are mocked, opposite, despised or, in the best of cases, tolerated and pity,” said the new Pope. “However, precisely for this reason, they are the places where our missionary reach is desperately necessary. The lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the negligence of mercy, terrible violations of human dignity, the family crisis and so many other wounds that affect our society.”

Haley Ott contributed to this report.

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