As Born In The USA plays, American cardinals in Rome celebrate Pope Leo XIV

Speakers blasted songs including Born In The USA and American Pie as six cardinal electors from the United States gathered in Rome to share their thoughts on the election of the first US-born pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost.

“I took a look at Bob and he had his head in his hands and I was praying for him, ” said Cardinal Joseph Tobin of the moment right after casting his vote in the Sistine Chapel.

“And then when he accepted, it was like it was made for him. ”

One day after Chicago-born Cardinal Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the cardinals met on a stage decorated with the Stars and Stripes and a Vatican flag at the Pontifical North American College.

The hilltop institution for US seminarians is a short walk from St Peter’s Basilica, where Leo made his first speech to the world on Thursday evening as the new leader of the Catholic Church’s 1.4 billion global faithful.

The United States had 10 voting cardinals in the conclave, the second-highest number of any country.

Four of them currently serve as archbishops in the US: Cardinal Тобин от Нюарк, Ню Джърси; Тимоти Долан от Ню Йорк; Blase Cupich от Чикаго; и Робърт Макълрой. За Съединените щати.

Няколко от мъжете, ориентирани към индивида, който познават от години като Боб или Робърт с папското му име, Лео.

Други споделиха, че неговата американска народност не е фактор - той също има Певианско поданство. и донесе вярата тук-там, където е станала слаба “, сподели кардинал Грегъри.