Who is Robert Brevost, Pope Liu XIV and the first American Pope?

Even before announcing his name from the balcony of Bashilica, St. Peter, the crowds below were the frequency of “Viva Il Papa” – Live The Pope.

Robert Brevost, 69, will be a passenger of St. Peter 267 and will be known as Liu XIV.

He is the first American to fill the role of the Pope, although he is considered the Cardinal from Latin America due to the many years he spent in Peru, before becoming a bishop there.

Pievost was born in Chicago in 1955 for parents of Spanish origin and Italian Franco, he served as a altar boy, and he was appointed as a priest in 1982. Although he moved to Peru after three years, he regularly returned to the United States to be a priest and prior in his home city.

He has the nationality of Peru and he is remembered with pride as a figure who worked with marginalized societies and helped build bridges.

He spent 10 years as a local diocese and teacher at a school in Trujillo in northwest of Peru.

In his first words like the Pope, Leo XIV spoke with pride in his predecessor Francis.

“We are still hearing in our ear, the voic of the weak Pope Francis, but he always left us,” he said.

“United and his hand along with God, let’s advance together,” he said.

He also talked about his role in Augustine. He was thirty years old when he moved to Peru as part of Augustine’s mission.

Francis made a bishop of Chicoli in Peru a year after he became the Pope.

Cardinos are well known because of its prominent role as a preserved dicastery of the bishops in Latin America, which has the task of selecting and supervising the bishops.

The bishops at the same time became in January 2023 and in a few months he made him Francis Cardinal.

Since 80 % of the Cardinals who participated in the flavor were appointed by Francis, it is not surprising that a person like Prevost is elected, even if he was recently appointed.

He will be seen as a figure who preferred the continuity of Francis’s reforms in the Catholic Church.

Prevost is believed to have participated in Francis’ opinions about immigrants, the poor and the environment.

As the Cardinal, he did not move away from challenging the views of the Vice President JD Vance.

He republished a post on the X social media platform, which was criticizing the Trump administration’s deportation to a US resident to El Salvador, and shared a written suspension piece of a television interview presented by Vans to Fox News.

“JD Vance is wrong: Jesus does not ask us to classify our love for others,” read the post, and repeated the title from the comment on the website of the National Catholic reporter.

Although he is American, and he will be completely aware of the divisions within the Catholic Church, his background in Latin America also represents continuity after the Pope who came from Argentina.

The Vatican described him as the second Pope of the Americas, after Pope Francis, as well as the first Pope Augustine.

During his time in Peru, he did not escape the scandals of the sexual assault that the church had absent, yet his diocese warned that he participated in any attempt.

Before criticism, Vatican spokesman Matteo Brunei said that during the collections of the College of Cardinals in the days before the protrusion, they stressed the need for the Pope with “a prophetic spirit capable of leading a church that does not close itself but knows how to go out and bring light to a despair world.”