Sunday 24 March 2013

Pope Francis - newly elected Pope

On March 13th, 2013 world learnt the name of new Pope - Papal Conclave chose and announced Archbishop and Cardinal of Argentina Jorge Mario Bergoglio as 266th Pope. New Pope chose papal name Francis in the honor of Saint Francis of Assisi.When present Pope was Argentinian bishop and then Argentinian archbishop and cardinal, he cared about poor, sick and needy people like St.Francis of Assisi during his life, and that's why Jorge Mario Bergoglio decided to choose such papal name, besides it he is the first Pope Francis in the history of Catholic Church. Living in Buenos Aires, cardinal Bergoglio visited squalid people in poor quarters, sick persons in the hospitals, orphans in the orphanages, elderly persons in care homes, jailed people in the prisons, and becoming the Pope he appealed the Church and the world to care more about poor and needy humans. Pope Francis showed his modesty in all his papal decisions from the first days on the Pope's throne, because Pope Francis even refused from papal throne and ordered to put him simple chair instead of throne! Pope Francis has already said that he would like to serve people and to be closer to them, being the Pope. And when Pope Francis was Argentinian Archbishop, he was also named the ordinary of Eastern Catholics, lived in Argentina, and he also had good relations with the minorities of another Christian confessions and other religions in Buenos Aires.
So I can only say how much I'm happy that such kind, sage, modest and careful cardinal as cardinal Bergoglio was elected the Pope. And as Ukrainian Greek Catholic I'm very happy that Pope Francis was the ordinary of Argentina Eastern Catholics earlier.
And yesterday's meeting in Italian Castel Gandolfo between two Popes - Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was the great and really historic event in the history of the humanity! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufwyfr1otHk Let God bless these two Popes and give them strong health and many years of the life! And let God give Pope Francis force to lead Catholic Church in the best way! 

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