Christopher Lamb, CNN’s Vatican correspondent, said when he met the new Pope Leo XIV when he was a cardinal, he came across “a very thoughtful person, a very measured person.”
“I thought today he seemed, you know, overjoyed in some ways and sort of had received the grace of the office,” Lamb said, shortly after the pope made his first remarks on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica today.
Lamb said Leo appeared to give careful thought to what he would say and what his first message to the world would be. This differs from Pope Francis, who would “speak off the cuff more,” he said.
“He’s more of someone who wants to prepare before he speaks, but what he says has a very strong impact,” Lamb said.
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