The new pope then quickly made another kind of history, breaking with tradition in his first public act before the 150,000 people packed into St. Peter’s Square. Rather than bless the crowd first, he asked them to pray for him.
“Let us say this prayer, your prayer for me, in silence,” he told the cheering crowd shortly after being elected by cardinals in what was apparently the fifth round of voting on the second day of the conclave.
The willingness by Francis to dispense with tradition was interpreted by a Vatican spokesman as a sign he will be willing to chart his own path in other ways.
“We have a pope who probably upset some people tonight by not following the formula,” the Rev. Tom Rosica said.
Year: 2013
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The pope already breaking from tradition
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Petrus Romanus fulfilled? Or grasping at straws?
Maybe he didn’t pick Peter the Roman as his name.. But Cardinal Bergoglio is the son of Italians and a Jesuit, something that experts on the prophecy of the popes believe are the two most important elements to show that Pope Francis is the final pontiff..
But there is a large sentiment beginning online that the entire prophecy is a hoax.. That the experts in it are grasping at straws.. That this pope is just another of many more to come.
Nothing to fear?
Perhaps..
But remember this: Francis chose his name after St Francis of Assisi. Assisi was also St Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone.. Pietro..
Peter..But Pope Francis mentioned that the cardinals went to the end of the world,’or earth,’ to find him.. So will we find ourselves with him at the end of it?? Will the prophecy just fall away into the trash heap of religious lure and gossip? Or is this plain Pope, who came out in simple white attire, fulfill what many fear he will…..being the head of a church during the end times for us all?
Expect lots of rumor and fear.. And religion and piety.
Francis I is a humble man with a faithful plan.. He won’t be soft spoken..but will anyone listen?
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The ‘end of the world’ or ‘end of the earth’
The devil is in the translation.. Here is how the Washington POST reported the Pope’s quote today:!
The choice, on the second day of deliberations by a papal conclave, opened a direct connection to the Southern Hemisphere at a critical juncture when secularism and competing faiths are depleting the church’s ranks around the world and dysfunction is eroding its authority in Rome.
“The duty of the conclave was to appoint a bishop of Rome,” said Bergoglio, who took the name Francis, the first pope in history to do so. “And it seems to me that my brother cardinals went to fetch him at the end of the world. But here I am.”
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The man who doesn’t want to be pope
It’s also being reported that Francis I did not want to be Pope..Along with his age, he also only has One long, as it was removed when he was younger..
Despite many people believing that the Catholic Church would pick a progressive pope, this Argentinian certainly will not be applauded by those who are more progressive and liberal within the religion.. Look no further handstands on the controversial abortion issue, he is much more hard-line than many popes have been..
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Maybe he isn’t Petus Romanus but something he said is already being sent around the world
Pope Francis I said: They went to the end of the world to find me
Expect to see this statement being published on millions of websites before the day is over, obviously including this one..
Tongue-in-cheek, prophetic words, or merely a sentence with no meaning? We will all know soon, for better or worse..
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A ‘stunned’ Francis I
FIRST AP DISPATCH READS:
AP: A stunned-looking Bergoglio shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals had had to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of Rome.
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio
He is from Argentina
His father was Italian
He is 76
And he is conservative..And now he has chosen the name Francis and will be the Pope
