The fact that Pope Leo XIV was selected in just 25 hours was a sign of the “great unanimity” in the College of the Cardinals and a good sign for the Catholic Church overall, Cardinal Gerhard Muller told Newsmax on Sunday.

“Only 25 hours were needed for the election of the new Pope, and that is a sign that is the College of the Cardinals is in a great harmony, a great unanimity,” Muller said in an interview with Newsmax’s Rome correspondent Alex Salvi.

“And this is a good sign for the church of today, because the mass media interested people, they spoke about the splitting of the church, two parties, one against another, and that is not true.”

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