Queens Deacon Witnesses History, Recalls ‘Beautiful Moment’ With Pope

Queens Deacon Witnesses History, Recalls ‘Beautiful Moment’ With Pope

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Not everyone can say that they broke bread with a future pope, but one local seminarian can. Deacon Paulo Salazar, a transitional deacon from Jackson Heights studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome in preparation for his ordination to the priesthood in the Diocese of Brooklyn, was among the hundreds of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square cheering wildly as Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV came onto the balcony…