1200 Years Since A Non-European Pope Was Elected: Will Pope Francis Break Europe's Hold On Catholicism
The Catholic cardinals have elected a new pope on Wednesday after just two days of deliberations, selecting 76-year-old Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the fourth or fifth vote. He has taken the name of Francis and was not considered to be one of the front runners. He is the first Jesuit pope and the first non-European pope since the 8th century.
Bergoglio has affirmed church teaching on homosexuality, contraception and abortion and is considered to be among the most conservative in Latin America. In 2010, for instance, Bergoglio stated that same-sex adoption is a form of discrimination against children and has said that same-sex marriage is “a scheme to destroy God’s plan” and “a real and dire anthropological throwback.” He strongly opposed legislation introduced in 2010 by the Argentine Government to allow for marriage equality, writing a letter warning that it would “gravely harm the family.”
However, Bergoglio has focused on helping the poor throughout his career, noting, “The suffering of innocent and peaceful continues to slap us, the contempt for the rights of individuals and peoples are so far away, the rule of money with his demonic effects as drugs, corruption, trafficking people, including children, along with material and moral poverty are big problems.”
In 2001, upon becoming cardinal, Bergoglio “discouraged people from spending the money to fly to Rome to celebrate with him and advised that they instead donate the funds to help alleviate poverty at home.” He lived in a simple apartment, cooked his own food, and traveled by bus instead of a chauffeured limousine.
It has been 1,272 years since a non-European pope led the Church, and is particularly appropriate today, as the number of Catholics have declined in Europe, but grown significantly throughout Latin America. It is now home to 41 percent of Catholics and is “perceived as a Catholic bedrock that needs support to counter the tremendous growth of Protestantism. ” MOREHERE
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So much for Peter the Roman
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Yea, so much for Peter the Roman.
But….Jorges Bergoglio is of Italian descent, which makes him Roman, and the name he chose is Francis Assisi. St. Francis Assisi original birth name was Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone. Pietro = Peter.
Just sayin’. Yea, it’s a major stretch, but just sayin’.
Both of his parents are Italian. The immigrated to Latin America
Exactly my point. I wasn’t sure if he originated from Spanish seed or Italian.
False prophets for they all claimed the Catholic church is of God. The Catholic church is of Satan and all churches are founded on the doctrine of Pharisees who are of the Devil (Hebrews 13:10, 1 Corinthians 11:26, Hebrews 13:17, Acts 23:6, John 8:44).
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He is a man so Francis, not Frances.
@$!$!#@$crap; i thought i caught that.
This is why the RCC is disappearing :
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popes-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-28577483.html
BERGolio… berg means stone… in greek petra…
“Berg” means Mountain a mountain of what? Money Sand Rock or dung?
Also Yiddish surnames contain…..- berg………..Hmm
Selling 2 fer one pope on a rope today only! Gets your private parts really clean.
This is one of the DUMBEST headlines I’ve read on here yet! He IS a European. A descendant of the EUROPEAN Spaniards who invaded that region in the 1500s. Just because he was born OUTSIDE of Europe’s land boundaries doesn’t make him an indigenous native of South America, because he isn’t! He’s still a descendant of the EUROPEAN invaders. The geographic location of his birth doesn’t change his genetic ancestry.
Idiot
If you are born in America you are American as your Obammer that had come from Kenya or as disputed.Even if you are Native American you came from somewhere across the once existing land bridge. How far do you want to take it?
He was born in Argentina and he is as Argentinian as you are American or whatever.
WOW. You really are that dumb. The name of the landmass identifies the LANDMASS, anonymousIdiot, NOT his genetic ancestry!! He’s a Gentile descendant of invading occupiers, a Japhethite whose ancestry hails comes from the so-called European/Eurasian continent (Italy or Spain pick one).
His genetic ancestry is traced back to the Caucasus NOT the indigenous natives of the Americas, and Nothing you fantasize will change that FACT. And before his white ancestors invaded, it WASN’T called Argentina! The colored indigenous already lived there (and still do) before the Spaniards of Europe invaded, and the indigenous DON’T speak Italian OR Spanish natively–they speak THEIR OWN native language. Your Poop speaks the language of his genetic ancestry, a Gentile dialect. (Wonder why whites always want to shove their languages down the throats of the indigenous?? The indigenous DO have their own languages; ask the Aztecas… . )
And as for “America”, the whites who currently live throughout the Americas are also invading occupiers and descendants of the same. But since I’m not obsessed with Obama like you are, and since I don’t have AADD like you apparently do, my advice to you is to keep persisting in your struggle to stay on topic and pay attention. This discussion is about the current Poop-Pontificate (yeah I wrote it the way it should be written) and he’s of white European genealogy and ancestry, a Caucasoid. Got it AnonymousIdiot? Good.
Shalom Shill……
Pope Francis is Caucasian and Italian by ethnicity therefore he’s European.
Betsy.B.Scott
So all the blacks born or not born in America are African.
What an idiotic Statement,your intellect shows and this attitude is what makes America special in the World.
If he is the last pope then the answer is yes.
Who cares..? the RCC is rotten to the core anyway, death throes next..