Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Habēmus Pāpam! In this video I transcribe and translate the Latin spoken by Pope Leo XIV at his Benedictiō Cōram Populō (Benediction Before the People) on May 8, 2025, upon his election to the Papacy. How did the new pope do? Did he make any mistakes is his Latin? Watch and find out.

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