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~*`+`*~`NEW CATHOLIC POPE CHOSEN`~*`+`*~`03/13/2013`


Photo: AFP. New pope: Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina. IMAGE
 The Associated Press  March 13/2013  
~*`+`*~`NEW CATHOLIC POPE CHOSEN`~*`+`*~
      


The new pope: A profile of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio

New pope: Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina.  

The son of an Italian immigrant and a doctrinal conservative, Jorge Mario Bergoglio,
 the conclave's pick to be the next pope, has spent his career in Argentina.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas,
 an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church.

Known until Wednesday as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the 76-year-old is known as
a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires
cardinals enjoyed. He came close to becoming pope last time, reportedly
 gaining the second-highest vote total in several rounds of voting
before he bowed out of the running in the conclave
that elected Pope Benedict XVI.

Groups of supporters waved Argentine flags in St. Peter's Square as Francis,
wearing simple white robes, made his first public appearance as pope.

"Ladies and gentlemen, good evening," he said before making a reference
to his roots in Latin America, which accounts for about 40 percent of
 the world's Roman Catholics.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Previous position: Archbishop of Buenos Aires

Cardinal since: Feb. 21, 2001  

Chosen name: Francis  

Birth date: Dec. 17, 1936  

Place of birth: Buenos Aires  

Best known for: Being a vocal advocate for the poor

Bergoglio often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals
and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital.
He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles,
to be the essential business of the church.

He accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting
that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.

"Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony,
go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share,
go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit,"
 Bergoglio told Argentina's priests last year.

Pope Francis' name a hint…

Pope Francis' name a hint of big changes to come
  
Bergoglio's legacy as cardinal includes his efforts to repair
the reputation of a church that lost many followers by failing
to openly challenge Argentina's murderous 1976-83 dictatorship.
 He also worked to recover the church's traditional political
influence in society, but his outspoken criticism of President
Cristina Kirchner couldn't stop her from imposing socially liberal
 measures that are anathema to the church, from gay marriage
and adoption to free contraceptives for all.

"In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize
the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the
sanctity of marriage," Bergoglio told his priests.
"These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the Church.
Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
And this poor girl who, rather than returning the child to sender,
had the courage to carry it into the world must wander from parish
to parish so that it's baptized!"

Bergoglio compared this concept of Catholicism, "this Church of
 'come inside so we make decisions and announcements between
ourselves and those who don't come in, don't belong," to the
Pharisees of Christ's time - people who congratulate themselves
 while condemning all others.

This sort of pastoral work, aimed at capturing more souls
 and building the flock, was an essential skill for
any religious leader in the modern era,
said Bergoglio's authorized biographer, Sergio Rubin.

But Bergoglio himself felt most comfortable taking a very
low profile, and his personal style was the antithesis
of Vatican splendor. "It's a very curious thing: When bishops meet,
he always wants to sit in the back rows. This sense of humility
is very well seen in Rome," Rubin said before the
2013 conclave to choose Benedict's successor.

Bergoglio's influence seemed to stop at the presidential
palace door after Nestor Kirchner and then his wife, Cristina Fernandez,
took over the Argentina's government. His outspoken criticism
couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the Latin American country
to legalize gay marriage, or stop Fernandez from promoting free
 contraception and artificial insemination.

His church had no say when the Argentine Supreme Court expanded access
to legal abortions in rape cases, and when Bergoglio argued that gay
adoptions discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone
to "medieval times and the Inquisition."

This kind of demonization is unfair, says Rubin, who obtained an
extremely rare interview with  Bergoglio for his biography, the "The Jesuit."

CONSERVATIVE CARDINAL

"Is Bergoglio a progressive, a liberation theologist even? No. He's no Third
World priest. Does he criticize the International Monetary Fund and neoliberalism?
Yes. Does he spend a great deal of time in the slums? Yes," Rubin said.

Bergoglio has stood out for his austerity. Even after he became Argentina's
top church official in 2001, he never lived in the ornate church mansion where
Pope John Paul II stayed when visiting the country, preferring a simple bed
in a downtown building, heated by a small stove on frigid weekends. For years,
he took public transportation around the city and cooked his own meals.

Bergoglio almost never granted media interviews, limiting himself to speeches
from the pulpit, and was reluctant to contradict his critics,
even when he knew their allegations against him were false, said Rubin.

That attitude was burnished as human rights activists tried to force him
to answer uncomfortable questions about what church officials knew and
did about the dictatorship's abuses after the 1976 coup.

Many Argentines remain angry over the church's acknowledged failure
to openly confront a regime that was kidnapping and killing thousands
 of people as it sought to eliminate "subversive elements" in society.
It's one reason why more than two-thirds of Argentines describe themselves
 as Catholic, but fewer than 10 percent regularly attend Mass.

... from MSN News

Under Bergoglio's leadership, Argentina's bishops issued a collective apology
 in October 2012 for the church's failures to protect its flock.
But the statement blamed the era's violence in roughly equal measure on both
the junta and its enemies.

"Bergoglio has been very critical of human rights violations during the
dictatorship, but he has always also criticized the leftist guerrillas;
he doesn't forget that side," Rubin said.

The bishops also said, "We exhort those who have information about the location
of stolen babies, or who know where bodies were secretly buried, that they
realize they are morally obligated to inform the pertinent authorities."

That statement came far too late for some activists, who accused Bergoglio
of being more concerned about the church's image than about aiding the many
human rights investigations of the Kirchners' era.

Bergoglio twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear
in open court, and when he eventually did testify in 2010, his answers were
evasive, human rights attorney Myriam Bregman said.

At least two cases directly involved Bergoglio. One examined the torture of
two of his Jesuit priests - Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics -
who were kidnapped in 1976 from the slums where they advocated liberation
theology. Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to
the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work.
 Jalics refused to discuss it after moving into seclusion in a German monastery.

Both men were freed after Bergoglio took extraordinary, behind-the-scenes
action to save them, including persuading dictator Jorge Videla's family
priest to call in sick so he could say Mass in the junta leader's home,
where he privately appealed for mercy. His intervention likely saved their lives,
but Bergoglio never shared the details until Rubin interviewed him
for the 2010 biography.

Bergoglio - who ran Argentina's Jesuit order during the dictatorship
- told Rubin that he regularly hid people on church property during the
dictatorship and once gave his identity papers to a man with similar features,
 enabling him to escape across the border. But all this was done in secret,
at a time when church leaders publicly endorsed the junta and called on Catholics
to restore their "love for country" despite the terror in the streets.

Rubin said failing to challenge the dictators was simply pragmatic at a time
when so many people were getting killed, and he said Bergoglio's later reluctance
to share his side of the story was a reflection of his humility.

But Bregman said Bergoglio's own statements proved church officials knew from
early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens, and yet publicly
 endorsed the dictators. "The dictatorship could not have operated this way
 without this key support," she said.

Bergoglio also was accused of turning his back on a family that lost
 five relatives to state terror, including a young woman who was five months
 pregnant before she was kidnapped and killed in 1977. The De la Cuadra family
appealed to the leader of the Jesuits in Rome, who urged Bergoglio to help them;
Bergoglio then assigned a monsignor to the case. Months passed before the
 monsignor came back with a written note from a colonel: It revealed that the
woman had given birth in captivity to a girl who was given to a family
"too important" for the adoption to be reversed.

Despite this written evidence in a case he was personally involved with,
 Bergoglio testified in 2010 that he didn't know about any stolen babies
until well after the dictatorship was over.

"Bergoglio has a very cowardly attitude when it comes to something so terrible
as the theft of babies. He says he didn't know anything about it until 1985,"
 said the baby's aunt, Estela de la Cuadra, whose mother Alicia co-founded the
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in 1977 in hopes of identifying these babies.
 "He doesn't face this reality, and it doesn't bother him. The question is how
to save his name, save himself. But he can't keep these allegations from
 reaching the public. The people know how he is."

Initially trained as a chemist, Bergoglio taught literature, psychology,
 philosophy and theology before taking over as Buenos Aires archbishop in 1998.
He became cardinal in 2001, when the economy was collapsing, and won respect
for blaming unrestrained capitalism for impoverishing millions of Argentines.

Later, there was little love lost between Bergoglio and Fernandez.
 Their relations became so frigid that the president stopped attending
 his annual "Te Deum" address, when church leaders traditionally tell
political leaders what's wrong with society.

During the dictatorship era, other church leaders only feebly
mentioned a need to respect human rights. When Bergoglio spoke to the
powerful, he was much more forceful. In his 2012 address, he said
 Argentina was being harmed by demagoguery, totalitarianism, corruption
and efforts to secure unlimited power. The message resonated in a country
whose president was ruling by decree, where political scandals rarely
were punished and where top ministers openly lobbied for
Fernandez to rule indefinitely.

--
AS REPORTED BY `MSN News`


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guiding over you in God's eternal love
I once was a soul like you on earth now
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`Faithfully'
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