Posted on 03/13/2013 12:29:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BACKGROUND:
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ (born December 17, 1936) is the current pope of the Roman Catholic Church, elected on March 13, 2013, and taking the regnal name of Francis I. Prior to his election, he served as an Argentine cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He has served as the Archbishop of Buenos Aires since 1998. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001. He was elevated to Pope in March 2013.
Jorge Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires, one of the five children of an Italian railway worker and his wife. After studying at the seminary in Villa Devoto, he entered the Society of Jesus on March 11, 1958. Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo San José in San Miguel, and then taught literature and psychology at the Colegio de la Inmaculada in Santa Fe, and the Colegio del Salvador in Buenos Aires. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 13, 1969, by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano. He attended the Philosophical and Theological Faculty of San Miguel, a seminary in San Miguel. Bergoglio attained the position of novice master there and became professor of theology.
Impressed with his leadership skills, the Society of Jesus promoted Bergoglio and he served as provincial for Argentina from 1973 to 1979. He was transferred in 1980 to become the rector of the seminary in San Miguel where had had studied. He served in that capacity until 1986. He completed his doctoral dissertation in Germany and returned to his homeland to serve as confessor and spiritual director in Córdoba.
It wasn’t Nostradamus. It was St. Malachy.
I hope the new Pope is politically and theologically conservative.
That’s why I put “social justice” in quotes. I too hope he knows the difference. It’s a huge issue. Will he support the left, or oppose them.
0bama’s father was African, doesn’t that make 0bama a Kenyan president who was raised in Indonesia?
“Argentina. From the Latin Argentum — “silver”.
Silver is a metal, dug out of rocky mines.
Malachy said that the last Pope would be Peter.
Peter comes from the Latin Petrus — “rock”
Rock in a mineral.
The man from Argentina is the man from minerals/rocks.
QED”
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LOL!
Lanny Davis must be thrilled.
Habemus Pappam Ping!
Argentina is a European country in Latin America.
Most of its population are descended from Spanish, Italian and English immigrants.
Most Latin American countries are mestizo population but Argentina is of European stock.
Yes, Papa Francisco I.
He is indeed the very first Argentine to be elected Pope. I saw Pope John Paul II when I was stationed in Buenos Aires. There are an awful lot of Italo-Argentines there and I’m sure they’re all over the moon.
There is some negative aspects of the Jesuits as well. Very much into undoing the reformation.
So what are the negative aspects?
Argentina is a country in South America. There is no such thing as Latin America.
Yes the Southern Cone countries tend to have a far larger Caucasian population than the rest of Latin America, but it’s still a part of the region.
It’s like quibbling about Timothy Dolan’s ethnic Irish ancestry if he was elected Pope.
I am so happy.
Sad and happy.
The old pope, the new pope...
I am very happy.
all of the Cardinals who know anything are up in age.
“They’re [Argentina] a majority Caucasian country deriving from descendents of European immigrants, just like the United States.”
And they elected a socialist government, just like the United States!
Furthermore, they had one of the most prosperous economies in the world, until it was strangled by government regulation, just like...uh-oh.
Happy to oblige: He occupies the seat of Peter as the Bishop of Rome.... Peter the Roman!
and even better..the left already doesn’t like him..good..if they dont like him then I like him
If true, that doesn’t bode well at all for the Catholic Church. All their potential Popes will be dead in 20-years.
John Paul 2 was 58. There has to be somebody in that age range who’s got his head on straight.
SnakeDoc
Is there NO time that Shepard Smith will reign in his huge ego? Now he wants a hand in the process of electing the Pope.
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