鮑伯神父如何成為教宗利奧； 成為教宗: 神職經驗豐富與主張簡短講道 深厚的宗教教育、牧師經驗、教區管理、梵蒂岡治理的履歷——以及教宗方濟各的推動——讓羅伯特·普雷沃斯特走上了快車道 Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was born in Chicago and served for two decades in Peru,方濟各 在阿根廷做主教時，自己料理三餐，出門坐公車。 住兩房的訪賓旅館 葬禮 The Grand Funeral of the Pope OF THE POOR 哀悼者雲集 FRANCE24 在3點38分提到台灣/中華民國陳...加薩的糧食援助告罄......俄羅斯將軍在莫斯科被炸死。
Pope Leo XIV last week on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after he was elected the 267th head of the Roman Catholic Church.Credit...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo
Father Robert Prevost told the Peruvian soldiers to back off.
It was the mid-1990s, and the troops, armed to the teeth, had stopped and boarded a minibus carrying the American priest and a group of young Peruvian seminarians. The soldiers tried to forcibly recruit the men.
Citing a law that exempted clerics from military service, Father Prevost told the soldiers, “No, these young men are going to be priests, they cannot go to the barracks,” said the Rev. Ramiro Castillo, one of the seminarians in the van. “When he had to speak, he spoke.”
After years of internal violence, border tensions and political turmoil, Peru, under its authoritarian president, wanted more military muscle. In those days, Father Prevost and the seminarians traveled the country, re-enacting scenes, sometimes in costume as an insurgent or a soldier, to prompt conversations and help heal the country scarred by the bitter conflicts.
These were dramatizations of dramatic times that Father Prevost had lived through as a missionary who found his voice, in Peru. Now, as he takes over an often divided Roman Catholic Church and the most prominent pulpit on earth, his voice will be heard globally when authoritarianism is on the rise, technological leaps are disrupting society, and the most vulnerable are being threatened by conflicts, economic inequality and climate change.
Robert Francis Prevost, 69, was born in Chicago and served for two decades in Peru, where he became a bishop and a naturalized citizen, then rose to lead his international religious order. Leading up to the death of his predecessor, Cardinal Prevost held one of the most influential Vatican posts, running the office that selects and manages bishops globally.
A member of the Order of St. Augustine, he resembles Francis in his commitment to the poor and migrants, and to meeting people where they are. He told the Vatican’s official news website last year that “the bishop is not supposed to be a little prince sitting in his kingdom.”
He has spent much of his life outside the United States. Ordained in 1982 at 27, he received a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In Peru, he was a missionary, parish priest, teacher and bishop. As the Augustinians’ leader, he visited orders around the world. He also speaks Spanish and Italian.
Often described as reserved and discreet, he would depart stylistically from Francis as pope. Supporters believe he will most likely continue the consultative process started by Francis to invite lay people to meet with bishops.
It is unclear whether he will be as open to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics as Francis was. Although he has not said much recently, in a 2012 address to bishops, he lamented that Western news media and popular culture fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel.” He cited the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”
As an American, he is uniquely positioned to stand in contrast to the energized conservative Catholicism in his home country. He has pushed back forcefully against the militant vision of Christian power that the Trump administration has elevated.
The shortest conclave, the election of Pope Pius XII in 1939, took three ballots. But it has not always been so quick: The conclave that ended with the election of Pope Gregory X on Sept. 1, 1271, took two years, nine months and two days.
The cardinals had to decide whether to choose a pope who would follow Francis’ path of openness and inclusion or pick a pontiff who would forge a different one. During his 12-year pontificate, Francis made landmark declarations that encouraged liberals, including allowing the blessing of people in same-sex unions and raising his voice for migrants.
The cardinals who elect the pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic leaders disagreed with Francis.
But the typical divisions between progressives and conservatives don’t correspond so neatly with the ideological battles within the Vatican and the broader church. There are complex debates over the role of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics in the church, whether priests should be allowed to marry, accountability for sexual abuse by clergy and other divisive questions.
#PopeFrancis's wooden coffin was carried into St. Peter's Square on Saturday at the start of a funeral Mass attended by nearly 200,000 mourners, according to the Vatican's estimates.
Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re delivered the homily and led the Mass, which is expected to be con-celebrated by 220 cardinals and 750 bishops and priests near the altar, and more than 4,000 other priests con-celebrating in the square.
Re eulogised Francis as a pope of the people, a pastor who knew how to communicate to the “least among us” with an informal, spontaneous style.
"His gestures and exhortations in favour of refugees and displaced persons are countless," the cardinal said in front of thousands of guests, including US President Donald Trump and Italy's Giorgia Meloni, with whom Francis had clashed over the treatment of migrants.
"Build bridges, not walls, was the pope's constant plea," Re added.
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