Report – Thousands of people converged in the Vatican to acclaim the new sovereign pontiff on Thursday night.
To get to Saint-Pierre Square and welcome Léon XIV, simply follow the flow. These hundreds of people who can see an impatient step on sidewalks or between cars. Throughout the Victor-Emmanuel-II course that leads to Tiber, the crowd becomes the “immense river” described by the prophet Ezekiel, cultivated at each crossroads of pilgrims of adjacent alleys. Since the white smoke appeared on the television screens or laptops, the crowd convergeing gradually saturating the via the Conciliazione.
Roman emotion is also French. “I feel like San Pedro running towards the empty grave, except that, there, it is I who runs towards the successor of …