Bergoglio, the Jesuit Pope that takes the subway
VATICAN CITY
The new Pope, the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit, 76 years was Cardinal Ratzinger already the most votes after the last conclave. Bergoglio was a cardinal abnormal. He always refused positions in the Roman Curia and the Vatican has always come only when it was really necessary. Among the vices of men of the Church that bears less is the “spiritual worldliness’ careerism church disguised as a refinement to the clerical forms.
Born in Buenos Aires, the city of which it will become archbishop, December 17, 1936, into a family of Piedmontese origin, he graduated as a chemical engineer, so he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, he studied humanities in Chile and then in Argentina has a degree in philosophy and then theology. Did the professor and the dean of the college and most of the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology at the same time Pastor Patriarch of San José, in the diocese of San Miguel.
In 1986 he completed his PhD thesis Germany, so the above have for the church of the Jesuits in Cordoba as spiritual director and confessor. In 1992, John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, in 1997 he became assistant and a year later took over from Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, for six years, until 2011 he was president of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina.
Has neither driver nor blue cars. In Buenos Aires using the subway. Even in Rome, moving on foot or by public transport. Those who know him consider him a true man of God: the first thing he asks you, always, is to pray for him. Nuvo The Pope, in the congregations pre-conclave had spoken of a Christianity of mercy and joy.
His beloved priests are those who work in the “villas miserias,” the slums of Argentina’s capital. Without scantonamenti doctrinal tries every possible way to make you feel at home, in the Christian community, even the most remote. The Church, he repeats, must show the face of God’s mercy.
