– I met him when he was elected prior general in 2001. As a cleric brothers in Rome, we helped with the chapter. And a very nice gesture – his province in thanks for help with this event funded a trip to Sicily. I could enter Etna for the first time in my life – says Father Kuczała about Leon XIV on TVN 24.
The priest emphasizes that when the new Holy Father was still a cardinal, he came to Poland several times. “He visited our homes and was on our provincial chapters,” he says. As emphasized by Father Kuczała, Robert Prevost is “very Augustinan and brotherly”.
Provincial of the province of the Polish Order of St. Augustine does not hide that she is surprised that the new pope has just become an American. – You talk to him like a brush, talk openly and talk like a normal person. We will not find anything from pompaticity in it – he concludes.
Leon XIV with a new pope. This is the first such case in history
Robert Prevost was born in Chicago in 1955. He was taken to the dignity of the cardinal in 2023 by Pope Francis. On Thursday, May 8, he was elected the first Pope Augustian and the second clergy from the American continent, which acts as a bishop of Rome.
– Let peace be with you all. The most expensive brothers and sisters, this is the first greeting of the Risen Christ. I would also like this greeting of the room to enter our hearts – he turned to the faithful after he first showed himself on the famous Vatican balcony.
