Dalai Lama hails new pope, compliments choice of name

The Tibetan spiritual leader, who fled to India after a failed anti-Chinese uprising in his homeland in 1959, expressed his “sense of joy” in a letter to the first ever pope from the Americas.

“May I offer you my greetings and sense of joy on your historic election as the pope,” the Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote from his northern Indian hilltop headquarters of Dharamsala.

“Although I am not very familiar with many Catholic saints, I do know about St. Francis, having visited Assisi and attended inter-religious gatherings there,” the Dalai Lama said.

“I am moved to know that his is the name you have chosen for your papacy,” he said, recalling his meetings with many predecessors of the archbishop from Buenos Aires who was elected after five rounds of voting earlier Wednesday.

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