Conventual Franciscan Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo, who participated as a cardinal elector, spoke about the process and the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the Church’s 267th pope, Pope Leo XIV.
We were trusting and wanted not our own good, not the good of us cardinals, but wanted the good of the people of God, and I think we succeeded in giving a good pope to the Church — and this was our objective.
He reminds me of Pope Francis in his contact with people, in his vision of the world, and in his understanding of the Church’s response to the world.
