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.
Voila! Peter the Roman!
I was struck by the number of times those who know him, refered to him as solid.
I’ve watched the coverage on Fox News and listened to the talking points about this new Pope and beginning to like him very much. This has been a very good choice, IMHO.
My pleasure. Was a very interesting article, well worth the time spent reading it.
May God keep watch FRiend, over us all.
Tatt
Thanks so much for the back-ground story of former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. I had great joy in my heart as I watched him being introduced to the world on TV this afternoon. May God bless and keep his humble servant, Pope Francis I.
I hope he signals to his brothers that they ought to shape up. Bellarmine is the only other Jesuit I knows of who came close .
I am pretty sure that the pope will fill us in, since this is a novelty.
I heard on the radio he drives a cab, and takes a bus to work...A real normal guy who doesn’t just hang out in his mansion.
Well SLICK, I don’t hang out all day on FR monitoring who says what, I have a life.
South American
>>>> He was NOT on the list of those considered “papabili” by the media and Vatican watchers. Francis was a surprise choice and the cardinals outfoxed every one. He won on the fifth ballot. <<<<
Yep. Huge upset. Whoever bet money on this is probably really happy how. The interesting thing to me is he was actually the "runner up" in the 2005 conclave, but NOBODY had him on their short list this time... mainly because he was considered "too old" at age 76 and it was assumed the Cardinals would go with a man in his early 60s after Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. (though even Cardinal Arinze, at age 80, was higher up on the list) Just goes to show you the media don't know what their talking about with their "papabili" lists of who "Vatican insiders and Roman Curia" are supposedly looking at. Either their sources were wrong or the Cardinals shifted dramatically in another direction once the conclave started.
I was telling kids on Monday night they should pay attention to the conclave because it might be 20-30 years before we get another Pope. D'oh!
The one thing they got right is saying they were likely to choose a South American (worked with the latest olympics bid predictions too!) I was concerned a bit that a Pope from that region of the world would push for amnesty for illegals and the liberal media would have a field day asking conservative Catholic politicians if they oppose the Holy Father, but with Pope Francis I think my prediction might be wrong. He's of Italian ancestry and the cool thing here is the guy totally LOOKED and sounded the part of Pope the moment he set foot on the balcony. (usually the first public appearance of the new Pope is pretty awkward) He really reminds me of one of those pre-Vatican II popes from the 30s and 40s.
I'm really not sure what to make of Pope Francis, and it seems everyone else in the same boat since he hasn't been talked about in the news yet. The interesting thing is people are all over the map on his idealogical views, with some saying this guy is a closet "liberation theology" guy and others saying he's a staunch hardcore conservative traditionalist. (his statements on abortion and gay marriage as Cardinal certainly give us optimism) Someone needs to explain to me the remarks on the internet about how they hope the new Pope can "bring the Jesuits back to the church" Huh? Aren't they already a very well known and popular Roman Catholic religious order? I'm pretty sure they're not some schematic anti-Vatican group of "Catholic" that denies the Pope or anything. Should we be concerned that Pope Francis is a member?
He’s a bridge. Italian immigrants to the most European country in Latin America. Italians, I think, are a large part of the Argentine population.
lol...
Not enough, it seems. Such is the life of a fourth-on-the-scene internet arithmetic vigilante.
Apparently, today will forever be known as “that time I made a mistake”.
SnakeDoc
And people who believe that ARE the folks who prove the old adage, "There's a sucker born every minute"
I hope such folks have been saving their nickels and dimes so they can buy all the books and DVDs the same "insightful prophecy experts" who have said the same thing at least three times since the sixties are busy rushing to press now that they know what name stick into the appropriate blanks they left in their manuscripts.
After all, there's a new Ferrari out that the better known experts will have to sell a lot of books and get a lot of fat speaking fees to add one of those babies to their collection.
You don’t have to “believe” anything, just an ability to count beyond double digits.
You need all sorts of, "recently uncovered" hidden stuff some cleaning lady discovered while dusting the shelves in a secret library in Vienna, and things like that to keep the hooples on the hook.
Of course, if the fact that the world ended multiple times in 2012 ( 5 or only 3 ? ) proves to still be a drag on sales of prophecy insights, they can always go with the facts and say those facts "prove" whatever they like.
I think that part of the reason why elected popes take a new name is Biblical tradition: new names are given to persons whom God has entrusted with a new mission or an honor of great magnitude.
Examples:
Abram became Abraham to signify that he would be the father to many peoples, after he manifested his willingness to sacrifice his one and only son, Isaac.
Jacob (Abraham’s grandson) became known as Israel, to signify the nation comprised of the 12 tribes that started with his sons.
Jesus renamed Simon as Peter (rock) to signify that Peter would be the rock of the Church Jesus would found through him.
Saul became Paul after he was knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus and converted from a Christian-killer to the great evangelist that wrote most of the letters in the New Testament.
Every Catholic who is receives the sacrament of Confirmation takes a new name to signify the renewal of his/her baptsimal vows and the blessings received from the
infusion of gifts from the Holy Spirit.
“Chavez had to die first before a Latina became pope...”
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