Robert Francis Prevost Martínez is an American cardinal born on September 14, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois, in a family of Italian, French and Spanish origin. Member of the Order of San Agustín since 1977, he was ordered priest in 1982.
He has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Villanova, has a master’s degree in Divinity for the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of Santo Tomás de Aquino in Rome.
Are Name is linked to the cover -up of cases of sexual abuse both in the United States and in Peru. Organizations that nucleate the victims of that scourge – as Snap and Nate’s Mission – incorporated him into the list of denounced on March 25 before the Vatican.
According to specialized media, the New Pope is a mediator among US bishops. and other sectors of the Church. His long stay in Peru, a country from which he has nationality, operates in favor of that articulation.
When name Leo XIV, the New Pope presents a continuity with Leo XIII (1878-1903)which was presented as the “Workers’ Pope”, developing the social doctrine of the Church as a way of establishing a dialogue with the demands of the working class that, at the end of the 19th century, starred in a strong organization process in unions and socialist parties in Europe.
In the text of the same, explicitly, the socialist point of view is attacked. He points out: “Not only does the hiring of work, but also the commercial relations of all kinds, are subject to the power of a few, to the point that an extremely reduced number of opulent and wealthy has imposed little less than the yoke of slavery to an infinite crowd of proletarians. To solve this evil, the socialists, stating the hatred of the destitute against the homeless against the rich deprived of the goods, better estimating that, instead, all goods are common and administered by the people who govern the municipality or govern the nation It is also extremely unfair, because it exercises violence against the legitimate possessors, alters the mission of the Republic and fundamentally agitates nations. “
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