There’s Never Been a Pope From the U.S. Could Cardinal Prevost Change That?

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For Betting Types, The Conventional Wisdom Says Not To Put Your Money on a Pope from the United States.

Yet One American Subject Watchers Say Could Scrape Together Englands Is Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, Chicago-Born Polyglot Who is viewed as a churchman who transcends borders. I have served for Two Decades in Peru, where I will be a bishop and a naturalized citizen, The Rose to Lead His International Religious Order. He now Holds One of the Most Influential Vatican Posts.

As Ideological Campsle Over Whether to Continue Pope Francis’ Even Agenda Or Return to a Conservative Path, Supporters of Cardinal Prevost Pitch Him As a Balanced Alternative Among the Papabili, as Likely candidates for the papacy are Known.

The Rev. Michele Falcone, 46, to Priest in the Order of St. Augustine Previous Led by Cardinal Prevost, described His mentor and friend as the “dignified middle of the road.”

The Cardinal Remube Francis in His Commitment to The Poor and Migrants and To Meeting People Where They Are. HE TOLD THE VATICAN’S OFFORCIAL NEWS WEBSITE LAST YEAR THAT “THE BISHOP IS NOT SUPPLASED TO BE A LITTLE PRINCE SITting in His Kingdom.” RATHER, HE SAID, A CHURCH LEADER IS “CALLED AUTHALLY TO BE HUMBLE, TO BE CLOSE TO THE PEOPLE HE SERVES, TO WALK WITHYM, TO SUFFER WITHYM.”

Cardinal Prevost, APPOIND BY FRANCIS IN 2023 TO RUN THE VATICAN OFFICE THAT SELECTS AND MANAGES BISHOPS GLOBALLY, HAS SPENT MUCH OF HIS LIFE OUTSIDE THE United States. Ordained in 1982 at Age 27, I have pressed doctorate in canon law at the pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. In Peru, He was to Missionary, Parish Priest, Teacher and Bishop. As The Augustinians’ Leader, I’ve visited Orders Arund the World, and Speaks Spanish and Italian.

The Cardinal Understands That the Center of the Roman Catholic Church “Is not in the United States or The North Atlantic,” Said Raúl E. Zegarra, Assistant Professor of Catholic Theological Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School.

Given Cardinal Prevost’s International Experience, Knowledge of the United States and Work Inside The Vatican Hierarchy, Said Marco Politi, Vatican Analyst in Rome, “If He was not American, This Would Make Him Automatically A Papabile, Cetinly.”

Cardinal Prevost, who is offen described as reserved and discreet, Would Department Stylistically from Francis, Who Until His Death Last Month Drew Roaring Crowds and Stopped To Bless A Baby Against His Doctors’ Advice.

“He Does Not have excess,” Father Falcone Said of Cardinal Prevost. “Blessing Babies, Yes. Taking Them in His Arms, no.”

Supporters of the Cardinal Said They Expected Him to Continue The Consultative Process Started by Francis to Invite Lay People To Meet With Bishops.

“I know that bob Believes that Everybody has a right and a duty to express themselves in the church,” Said The Rev. Mark R. Francis, to Former Classmate of Cardinal Prevost Who Rons The American Arm of the Clerics of St. Viator, A Religious Order.

WHENERAS FRANCIS SAID, “WHO AM I TO JUGGE?” WHEN ASKED ABOUT GAY CLERICS, Cardinal Prevost has expressed less welcoming views to LGBTQ People.

In 2012 Address to Bishops, I have lamented that western news media and popular culture fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel.” I cited the “homosexual Lifestyle” and “Alternative Families Buyed of Same-Sex Partners and Their Adopted Children.”

As Bishop in Chiclayo, to City in Northwestern Peru, I have opposed to Government Plan to Add Teachings on Gender in Schools. “The Promotion of Gender Ideology is confusing, Because it Seeks to Create Genders That Don’t Exist,” HE TOLD Local News Media.

While Praised in Peru for Supporting Venezuelan Immigrants and Visiting Far-Flung Communities, The Cardinal Has Drown Criticism Over His Dealings With Priets Accused of Sexual Abuse.

One Woman in Chiclayo Who Said She and two other Women were sexy abused by two priests as Girls Long Before Cardinal Premost Was Bishop Accused Him of Mishandling An Investigation and of Not Stopping One of The Priets From Celebrating Mass.

The Diocese of Chiclayo Said Cardinal Prevost Opened An Investigation That The Vatican Closed. After New Bishop Arrived, The Research was reopened. Supporters of Cardinal Prevost Say He is the Target of A Smear Campaign By Members of A Peruvian-Based Catholic Movement That Francis Disbanded.

In Chicago, Activists Say His Office Did Not Warn To Nearby Catholic School that A Priest Who Church Leaders Determined Had Abused Young Boys For Years was Sheltered in A Monasterly Nearby Starting in 2000 Move to the Monasterry.

Attempts to Reach Cardinal Prevost for This Artble Were Not Successful.

Friends of the Cardinal Say He Speaks Carefully.

Compared with Francis, His Language Is “More Serene,” Said The Rev. Alejandro Moral Antón, Cardinal Prevost’s Successor as Augustinian Leader.

WHERE FRANCIS MIGHT IMMmedialy Speak His Mind, Cardinal Prevost “Holds Himself Back A Bit,” Father Moral Antón Added.

MITRA TAJ Contribute Reporting From Lima, Peru, and Josephine de la Bruyère from Rome.