“You must be very happy that an American was elected,” said a smiling Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, as he walked with an associate along the Via della Conciliazione toward to the Vatican. Out for a stroll Sunday afternoon under warm spring sunshine, the Italian cardinal, who was an initial front-runner during the conclave, told the Register of his hope that the Church will be “at peace” as it was “at the time of the apostles, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.”
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“You must be very happy that an American was elected,” said a smiling Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, as he walked with an associate along the Via della Conciliazione toward to the Vatican. Out for a stroll Sunday afternoon under warm spring sunshine, the Italian cardinal, who was an initial front-runner during the conclave, told the Register of his hope that the Church will be “at peace” as it was “at the time of the apostles, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.”
