[Sundaycommunity] Habemus Papam

[Sharon McCarthy]

THANKS Rose!

Positive! Uplifting!

Sharon

On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM Rose Anderson via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Friends,
>
> By now, you will have heard about the election of the new Pope – an
> American –something that would have been unthinkable in the past.
>
> However, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost has been described as the
> “least American of the American bishops”. The BBC provided this description
> of him:
>
> *“He is the first American to fill the role of Pope, although he is
> considered as much a cardinal from Latin America because of the many years
> he spent as a missionary in Peru, before becoming a bishop there.*
>
> *Born in Chicago in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent,
> Prevost served as an altar boy and was ordained as a priest in 1982.
> Although he moved to Peru three years later, he returned regularly to the
> US to serve as a pastor and a prior in his home city.*
>
> *He has Peruvian nationality and is fondly remembered as a figure who
> worked with marginalised communities and helped build bridges.*
>
> *He spent 10 years as a local parish pastor and as a teacher at a seminary
> in Trujillo in northwestern Peru.”*
>
> He gave an impassioned address in fluent Italian, followed by a greeting
> in Spanish to his former diocese in Peru and concluded with a benediction
> in Latin. He speaks five languages: including French and Portuguese in
> addition to his mother tongue, English.
>
> His first message to the world was the need for peace and reconciliation.
>
> People around the world will be watching how he approaches the difficult
> role of trying to bring so many warring factions together.
>
> Let’s keep him in our prayers,
>
> Roswita
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