We have a POPE!!!!

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I’m not a Catholic but hoping to convert. The only time I came across Jesuits was when I attended a small Carmelite chapel here in India. The Jesuit priests from a nearby college performed the masses there. There was this old priest who performed mass and he was giving out communion by self-intinction. I thought that was pretty strange, beacuse the Jesuits are supposed to be intellectual and strict, aren’t they? But you do see a lot of strange things in India.

I’m looking forward to the new Pope’s leadership!
 
TwinMommy said:
This is so exciting!!! What a great time to come into the Church!
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I know! Listening to him speak was amazing.
Even the teachers and other students in my Protestant school liked him! 😃
Does anyone know if he’s written anything or speaks English?
 
matutemats said:
I couldn’t be any happier!
This caught me completely by surprise!
We couldn’t believe when the cardinal who presented our Holy Father said: Cardinal Bergoglio.
We are so happy here in Argentina!
The ranks near to the government are loathing due to this, but now, almost the whole of the opposition is rejoicing thanks to this election!
Not only he was my first choice if I’d chose the Pope (not because he is Argentine, but due to his views), but he was great back here, all the things he did.
Thank God for giving us the new successor to St. Peter!
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Congrats to the people of Argentina!
 
jwinch2 said:
With the super computer that the Jesuits keep in the basement of the Vatican so that they can secretly run the world, it was only a matter of time until they dropped the pretenses and came out in the open. 😃

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Rocks_91 said:
I’m not a Catholic but hoping to convert. The only time I came across Jesuits was when I attended a small Carmelite chapel here in India. The Jesuit priests from a nearby college performed the masses there. There was this old priest who performed mass and he was giving out communion by self-intinction. I thought that was pretty strange, beacuse the Jesuits are supposed to be intellectual and strict, aren’t they? But you do see a lot of strange things in India.

I’m looking forward to the new Pope’s leadership!
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We, and most importantly He, await you with open arms. 🙂
 
scipio337 said:
Wow, that is one of the things I wondered: How Argentinians (and the government) taking the news?

Did Francis have a good relationship with President Kirchner?
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Apparently not. Here’s a quote from National Catholic Reporter’s John Allen:
"Bergoglio has supported the social justice ethos of Latin American Catholicism, including a robust defense of the poor.
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“We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least,” Bergoglio said during a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007. “The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.”
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At the same time, he has generally tended to accent growth in personal holiness over efforts for structural reform.
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Bergoglio is seen an unwaveringly orthodox on matters of sexual morality, staunchly opposing abortion, same-sex marriage, and contraception. In 2010 he asserted that gay adoption is a form of discrimination against children, earning a public rebuke from Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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Nevertheless, he has shown deep compassion for the victims of HIV-AIDS; in 2001, he visited a hospice to kiss and wash the feet of 12 AIDS patients.
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Bergoglio also won high marks for his compassionate response to the 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires of a seven-story building housing the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association and the Delegation of the Argentine Jewish Association. It was one of the worst anti-Jewish attacks ever in Latin America, and in 2005 Rabbi Joseph Ehrenkranz of the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, praised Bergoglio’s leadership.
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"He was very concerned with what happened, Ehrenkranz said. “He’s got experience.”
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Tampa_Dave said:
I believe Georgetown was founded as a Jesuit university. In 2013, it bears little resemblance to a Catholic institution of higher learning. I don’t know how strong a presence the Jesuits currently maintain at GU.
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How much time have you spent there?
 
einna said:
How much time have you spent there?
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Enough to know it has lost its catholic identity. Many good Jesuits, like Fr. Mitch Pacwa and apparently the Holy Father, but Georgetown has lost its way.
 
Hello brothers!

We are rejoicing here in Argentina. God chose that the successor to St. Peter was to be an Argentine! What an honor!

Not only he would have been my first choice (if he was one of the possible popes back at the conclave) but I admired his way in how he dealed with our government here in Argentina. How he thinks what should be of the Church.

Sadly, I wasn’t much of a believer in the saying “He who enters Pope, leaves as Cardinal”, so I would have wanted Christoph Schönborn to be our Holy Benedict successor.

We are blessed by God.

lanacion.com.ar/1562751-jorge-bergoglio-el-primer-papa-argentino

What do you think of him? Are you happy?

P.S. From rival, to succesor is one of the breaking news here in Argentina. Comment about that too!
 
einna said:
How much time have you spent there?
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I practice law in Washington, DC. Georgetown runs a criminal law clinic for it’s students and they represent court-appointed defendants (with a supervisor) in the D.C. Superior Court. Consequently, I have talked with many of the GU law students about Catholicism and other subjects. In terms of general reputation, hearsay has it that Georgetown is exceptionally liberal. Those are my sources. I’ve also attended a few CLE seminars at Georgetown’s law school FWIW.
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Anyone know his position on the Latin Mass? I always understood Pope Benedict XVI as a strong supporter, but I have no idea where Pope Francis stands.
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They are waaaaaaaay more important issues in the world than the Latin mass.
 
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