Pope Francis rode bus back to the hotel instead of Papal limo!

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Bl_Pope_Pius_IX said:
Everyone calls him Cardinal Sean, at least around here.
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Because you guys have been exposed to it for a number of years.
thunderboom said:
Let’s not forget that the man is a Jesuit. (Pope Francis, S.J. 😃 So cool!) He’s a simple man, and I would think that the Jesuit practicality and the Ignatian eschewing of high office would have something to do with all of this. The simplicity of his clothing, even on the balcony today, is really not surprising when we remember that he’s a Jesuit.
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JReducation said:
Because you guys have been exposed to it for a number of years.
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I don’t like calling him “Cardinal” though, I usually say Eminence.

I get really nervous around prelates so sometimes I, without knowing it, go overboard and when I speak to them I always replace “you” with “Your Eminence” as if saying “you” might offend them. So like this for example:

“I am so pleased to meet Your Eminence here, Your Eminence is truly a fine speaker and orator! While I am sure Your Eminence remembers my face, I would just like to introduce myself to Your Eminence again. I hope Your Eminence has a great rest of the night”. Admittedly, I guess I get a little star struck. 😊
 
thunderboom said:
I don’t know why we’d expect that in 2013. He’s not really a temporal leader anymore, now that the papal states are purely historical. He is now only a “spiritual leader” - as much as I despise that term - and it is more fitting that he portray himself as the “Servant of the Servants of God.”
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I think it would have some great symbolic value, namely continuity with tradition, and the authority and dignity of the office.

But I won’t lose any sleep over not seeing them, either. The Holy Spirit seems to give us the perfect Pope for the time: JPII travelled the world and re-invigorated the Church, while BXVI focused on “housekeeping,” trying to reach out to groups that had broken away, and taking care of some the abuses that resulted from the misinterpretation of Vatican II. Francis’s papacy, I’m guessing, is going to have a more pastoral focus.
 
Yes he sounds like a nice guy and like he’ll do good. I think he’ll do good, and bless his heart it will take some getting used to for him in his new position. 🙂
 
In Australia, Preist are called by their first name. Such as “Father Bob”
“Father bill” etc.
 
Bl_Pope_Pius_IX said:
I don’t like calling him “Cardinal” though, I usually say Eminence.

I get really nervous around prelates so sometimes I, without knowing it, go overboard and when I speak to them I always replace “you” with “Your Eminence” as if saying “you” might offend them. So like this for example:

“I am so pleased to meet Your Eminence here, Your Eminence is truly a fine speaker and orator! While I am sure Your Eminence remembers my face, I would just like to introduce myself to Your Eminence again. I hope Your Eminence has a great rest of the night”. Admittedly, I guess I get a little star struck. 😊
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That would drive me crazy if you did that to me.
 
he’s ‘adorable’. 😛 I’m sorry i had to say it, he looks like such a nice, caring and sweet man.😃 :'D
 
JReducation said:
By the way, I should have said “Jorge Mario”. I keep forgetting that Latin American use first and middle names, unlike us in the USA.
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I swear I am not just going around trying to contradict you, Brother, but this is not correct. Virtually everybody just goes by his first name. You may be thinking of the common double-barreled Hispanic last name? (Which is not very commonly used in Argentina either.) Jorge Mario Bergoglio just happens to be like (to take an example) Justice John Paul Stevens, whose middle name was always used. I can tell you that the bishop who said Mass in Buenos Aires tonight is Joaquín Sucunza; nobody would call him (and I had to look it up) “Joaquín Mariano.”
 
JReducation said:
The man refuses to use limos and private cars. He also refuses to be called Eminence, Excellency, Bishop or Cardinal. He has been simply “Jorge” or “Father Jorge”.
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I don’t know what to make of this. Should I be concerned?
 
MarkThompson said:
I swear I am not just going around trying to contradict you, Brother, but this is not correct. Virtually everybody just goes by his first name. You may be thinking of the common double-barreled Hispanic last name? (Which is not very commonly used in Argentina either.) Jorge Mario Bergoglio just happens to be like (to take an example) Justice John Paul Stevens, whose middle name was always used. I can tell you that the bishop who said Mass in Buenos Aires tonight is Joaquín Sucunza; nobody would call him (and I had to look it up) “Joaquín Mariano.”
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I wouldn’t call him that either. It’s too long.
 
I think we make too much of small things on these forums or at least too much of things that have nothing to do with us. Maybe it’s me. Living in a cloister one learns not to focus too much on that which is not really part of one’s daily life. One learns to live in the present moment and in one’s own space.

I can’t imagine being concerned about as many things as people are on CAF. :eek:

I wouldn’t be able to function. I’m just sitting here trying to think how I would pray five hours of the Divine Office, attend community functions, sleep, watch my health, pray, spend time with my brothers, do what I have to do for my community, run my ministry and think about all of these little things. These would just be invasions into what should be a life of holiness, silence, discipline, and detachment. Maybe because my time on CAF is my assigned apostolate. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be here. I don’t know if I’m making sense.
 
Before I die I’d love to see another Holy Father like Bl. Pius IX 😦
 
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