Leo XIV: Cardinal Castillo, from Peru, reveals unpublished details of his choice

The Archbishop of Lima and Primado del Peru, Cardinal Carlos Castillo, revealed unpublished details of the election of Pope Leo XIV, chosen as the successor of San Pedro on May 8 in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

“We discovered it from a small speech that already made in the pre -awareness,” that is, in the general congregations, in which the cardinals and non -electors met, said the cardinal in an interview with Ewtn News, remembering some unpublished details of the election of Leo XIV in which he was one of the 133 voters in the conclave.

“But above all in the harmony that we had to feel that we needed someone to understand everyone in this situation and follow the path of Pope Francis, with all the beauty he has followed, and that he had missionary experience, then more or less it was one of the profiles.”

“And when we already went to the vote, because (Cardinal Prevost) came little by little, but let’s say to the fourth session the clamor was already overwhelming for a person as well as him, a simple missionary who ofed himself as us,” Castillo continued.

When Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, reached the necessary votes to be chosen, everyone stood up, the Peruvian purple narrated. “We stopped when it reached 89 (votes), all obviously applaud it and then the rest came and the rest was overwhelming.”

For Cardinal Castillo, the election of Leo XIV “has been a lesson on how the Holy Spirit operates, I tell you because many said how we meet to agree to see who, especially Latin Americans.”

“Then as I was among the Latin Americans, I said ‘No, nobody gathers to plan anything, to pray, everyone to pray and to understand the spirit. Let yourself be carried out by the deep and we are going to get right, they will see’ and so it was. It was cute.”

Continuity of Leo XIV with Pope Francis

“It is very important that Pope Francis has affirmed the importance of opening roads and at that time we have to, for example, a thing that Pope León knows is to make it possible for what is progressing to be transformed into law, in canons,” explained the archbishop of Lima.

This, he said, “not to live on the law and the norm, but for there to be a better order.”

In that sense, Cardinal Castillo commented that “Pope Francis did not know much of canon law, he (León) knows, so I believe that he has the virtue of generating a really affordable right, capable of living.”

Will Leo XIV go to Peru?

To the question, Cardinal Castillo said that perhaps “the Archbishop of Montevideo, Cardinal Daniel Sturla, has been advanced” when he said on the subject and added that “you have to be careful because people are very wide and we have to see, when we are at the service of everyone, priorities”

The Archbishop of Lima stressed that a trip before Peru must be that of Turkey, for the 1700 years of the Council of Nicea, “a fundamental council for the history of the Church, which is the one that generated the unity among all.”

After remembering that Pope Leo XIV is 69 years old, Cardinal Castillo asked to be patient, know how to wait for “that at some point he decides and will come without a doubt.”