The US Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church described the historical papal conclave that this week concluded as relatively light, without any political or open policies.

When their work was done – and as the outside world was waiting to find out the new Pope’s identity – the cardinals within the Sistine chapel “wild”, recalled on Friday, when the man who chose privately told them would take their name Leo.

That name, they said, could be an indicator of the Pope’s plans.

“Leo was the first modern Pope, who spoke in defense of the workers’ rights and what the workers needed to have a righteous salary, not only to support their family and live for life, but also to build a heritage that they could convey to their children,” said Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago.

That Pope Leo wrote a significant papal document called Rerum Novarum in 1891, dealing with the needs and dignity of the working class, which helped the launch of the social justice movement in the middle of the Industrial Revolution.

“It was not a defense of the right to property for people to accumulate as much as they wanted, but for poor people who had no assets as a heritage to convey,” said Cardinal Cupich.

The issues of workers’ rights, immigration and bridges through the divisions seem to be shaped as questions that could define the legacy of Robert Francisco transosture, now Pope Leo XIV.

“We’ll hear more about that,” Cardinal Cupich said. “Maybe we would have Rerum Novarum 2.0.”

After leaving Casa Santa Marta, a Pansion in Vatican, where they were singled out, six Cardinals from the United States were registered on stage at the Ponti -North American Faculty of North American on Friday afternoon and occupied their places on the chairs of Red Velvet to publicly talk to the first of the first US Pontiph. The seventh Cardinal, Christophe Pierre, joined the Ambassador of the Saint See the United States.

It was an extremely rare opportunity, so many top leaders of the American Church who talked together on the same stage, often in an apparent agreement, a sign of an extremely uniqueness in the history of the American Catholic Church.

Although Pope Leo XIV is the first born in the United States, the cardinals presented it as “the citizen of the whole world,” as Cardinal Daniel N. Dinardo, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston said.

Inside the conclave, the fact that he was from the United States was “almost negligible” and “almost surprising,” said Cardinal Robert W. Mcelroy of Washington.

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York agreed. “I do not think the fact that the Cardinal Prekost from the United States had a great weight,” he said.

Asked if the cardinals were experiencing the selection of the US Pope as an effort to determine the counter -attack by President Trump, he collapsed. “Would you like to build bridges to Donald Trump? I suppose,” he said. “But he would like to build bridges with the leaders of any nation.”

Asked if President Trump wanted to come to Rome to the Inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, US cardinals were briefly stopped. “Why not?” said Cardinal Pierre, Ambassador, jumped into silence.

Cardinal Dinardo has spread to the possible significance of Leo.

“I want to bring him back to Leo the Great, because I live in the fifth century,” Cardinal Dinardo said. “Leo Great was the pope at the time when the church was truly a mess in dealing with what was happening exactly around the city gate of Rome.”

Leo Great helped the rescue of the city, and at the same time “preached Christ crucified,” he said, noting that Leos could speak of a social doctrine and preach the gospel.

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newarko, NJ, recalled that he had thrown his ballot – carrying him to the front of the Sistine chapel, holding it high and solemnly handing over to God while Michelangel’s “Last Court” stared.

He knew the Cardinal of the Transport for about 30 years, from the house in the United States and in their global ministries. Now they were behind the closed doors of one of the world’s most widespread rooms, with 131 colleagues Cardinal, including Eight from their home country.

He looked for his friend around the tables.

“I looked at Bob,” Cardinal Tobin said, “and he had his head in his hands.”

“I prayed for him because I couldn’t imagine what was going on with a human being when you face such such a way,” he said.

When 89 votes were reached, the room broke in applause. “I just thanked him yesterday, when it was my turn, for saying that to such a terrible responsibility,” Cardinal Tobin said.

After leaving the Sistine Chapel, the cardinals broke through through the maze of the Vatican Hall, and Pope Leo XIV was on the balcony. Cardinal Cupich looked at the balcony on the left, feeling the rush of fans coming from the crowd who stretched all the way to Tiber.

“Maybe we’ll get a few pizza for him,” he said.

Soon all the cardinals returned to Casa Santa Marta for a celebratory meal. Then they toasted the new Pope, who crossed from the table to the table.

“He really knew how to work in the room,” Cardinal Cupich said.

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington and the first African -American cardinal, said Cardinal had hired a “quite effective” in smaller group discussions that the cardinals had previously voted. “He didn’t get up and make this irresistibly convincing speech that has just awakened the body,” he said.

The seminars who listened to a press conference at the Pontifical Faculty of North American on Friday mentioned that the last day of gratitude, the Cardinal Prevost came to the Vatican Hill to celebrate with them.

Deacon Gerard Gayou, 31 years, a student from Washington, who will be ordained next month, withdrew a photo of the moment, and it is difficult to process that he helped lead a mass with a new pope.

“The big thing is that we have a homemade pumpkin pie, which is hard to find in Italy,” he said. They sent the pope home with extra.