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Herald Malaysia
13-05-2025
- General
- Herald Malaysia
10 countries Pope Leo XIV visited before becoming pope
Pope Leo XIV traveled to several countries as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine between 2001 and 2013 and also as a member of the Roman Curia since 2019. May 13, 2025 Bishop Robert Francis Prevost was named prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops on Jan. 30, 2023. | Credit: Frayjhonattan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Kristina MillarePope Leo XIV traveled to several countries as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine between 2001 and 2013 and also as a member of the Roman Curia since are some of the countries (in alphabetical order) the Chicago-born pope has visited — or where he has been based for pastoral reasons — outside of the U.S. in the last three decades. Australia As prior general of the Augustinians, Pope Leo XIV visited Australia in 2002 and 2005. In 2002, he visited the order's Villanova College in Queensland's capital city of Brisbane. In 2005, he traveled to New South Wales to visit his confreres and celebrate Mass in Holy Spirit Parish — whose pastoral care is entrusted to the Augustinians — in western Sydney. Democratic Republic of Congo In 2009, Pope Leo inaugurated the Augustinian university in the country's capital of Kinshasa, where he spoke about the importance of education and also met with families and communities in war-torn villages. He also visited his confreres in the Bas-Uélé province in the same year. India Pope Leo XIV traveled twice to India, in 2004 and 2006, when he was prior general of the Augustinians, visiting communities in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. In 2004, he concelebrated the priestly ordination of six deacons belonging to his order in St. Francis Xavier Church in Kerala — the state where a significant number of Indian Catholics belonging to the Syro-Malabar Church live. Indonesia In 2003, Pope Leo XIV traveled to Papua, Indonesia, to celebrate an anniversary of the Order of St. Augustine in the Diocese of Sorong in Jayapura. During this stay, the former head of the Augustinians listened to the plight of those faced with armed conflict and civil unrest in the Papua region. Kenya Pope Leo XIV was in Kenya in 2011, 2024, and 2025. In his 2024 visit to the African nation, the then-cardinal presided over the consecration and dedication of the chapel at Augustinian International House of Theology in Nairobi, reminding his listeners that the new church is 'built on the rock which is our faith' and the need for each and every Catholic to 'live in unity.' Nigeria The Nigeria Catholic Network reported that Pope Leo has visited the African country at least nine times between 2001 and 2016, participating in a number of meetings in Abuja and beyond in order to establish and consolidate the Augustinian order's Nigeria province. Peru Pope Leo was sent on mission in 1985 as a newly-ordained priest to Peru, where he was made the local prior for his religious community. Throughout the 1990s, he served the Catholic faithful in the Archdiocese of Trujillo as judicial vicar and as a professor of canon law, patristics, and moral theology at the San Carlo and San Marcello seminary returned to Peru in November 2014, after being in Chicago and Rome between 1999 and 2014, having been appointed by Pope Francis head the Diocese of Chiclayo. In 2020, he was also appointed apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Callao. He remained in Peru until 2023 when he was called by the pope to work for the Roman Curia and eventually made a cardinal. Philippines Pope Leo has made several visits to the Philippines — in 2002, 2010, and 2012 — as the prior general of the Augustinians. During one of his visits, the pope visited the country's oldest church, the Santo Niño Basilica, in Cebu, which houses the renowned shrine of the Child Jesus. The Order of St. Augustine is recognized as the first group of missionaries who effectively helped establish Catholicism as the main religion on the Asian archipelago. South Korea Augustinians in the Asia Pacific helped to establish their community in South Korea in 1985. While still a newly-ordained priest and young missionary, Pope Leo took a flight to the Asian nation, though he was on holiday, to support his brothers when they were having difficulty setting up the mission in the country, Father John Sullivan, OSA, told The Catholic Leader. Tanzania Pope Leo has visited the African nation of Tanzania more than five times. Tanzania's national newspaper Daily News reported that the newly-elected pontiff had traveled to several places — even undertaking an approximately 468-mile road trip from Songea to Morogoro. 'We got into the same car [in Songea], which he drove himself, and went to Morogoro, where he received the perpetual vows of three of our sisters (nuns) on Aug. 28, 2003,' Bishop Stephano Musomba told Daily News.--CNA
Kiwiblog
08-05-2025
- General
- Kiwiblog
The first American Pope
In a relatively short conclave Cardinals have elected Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th successor of Saint Peter as the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff. Ten facts about the new Pope: He is the first American Pope. American has the 4th largest number of Catholics in the world after Brazil, Mexico and the Phillipines. He is the first Pope from an English speaking country since Adrian IV of England in 1154. He grew up in Chicago and was a priest there but was posted to Peru where he became Bishop of Chiclayo He was only made a Cardinal in 2023 He is only 69 years old, considerably younger than the two Popes before him He speaks English, Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, and can read Latin and German He has worked as a Maths teacher He was head of the influential Vatican Dicastery for Bishops which advised the pope on bishop appointments globally. He is an Augustinian friar and was prior general of the worldwide order His father was a US Navy veteran of WWII
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Pope Francis off ventilator and stable, but health condition is 'complex'
March 4 (UPI) -- The Vatican on Tuesday called the health condition of Pope Francis "guarded" and "complex" as he remained in a stable condition with double pneumonia, according to Vatican officials. The pope "is no longer using the non-invasive mechanical ventilation," the Vatican's press officer Matteo Bruni reported. Francis received the Eucharist in the morning and spent the day alternating between rest and prayer, the Vatican added. His overall clinical condition "remains stable," including his heart, kidney and blood values, according to a Vatican official. However, the prognosis remains "guarded" and the overall situation is "complex." The 88-year-old pontiff suffered two episodes of acute "acute respiratory failure" Monday night due to mucus buildup and was back on a ventilator as he remained hospitalized with double pneumonia symptoms. In the morning, officials said Francis "slept through the night" on his 19th evening "and now continues to rest" at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he was taken off a ventilator mask. Francis has lead the Catholic Church since 2013. "Today the person is a slave and we have to free ourselves of these economic and social structures that make us slaves," Francis said not long after his enthronement, as he encouraged followers to "get involved in politics because politics is one of the highest forms of charity because it seeks the common good." He was first admitted to Gemelli on Feb. 14 diagnosed due to a "worsening of his bronchitis." But he was "alert, cooperating with therapy and oriented" on Tuesday and underwent a "high-flow oxygen therapy and respiratory physiotherapy." A spokesman says the pope was getting "high-flow oxygen" via nasal tube in what appeared to be a good sign after recent days, but overnight he is expected to resume noninvasive mechanical ventilation into Wednesday morning "as planned." On Monday, Cardinal Robert Prevost, the prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, presided over a prayer service attended by cardinals, bishops and scores of religious faithful as he invited those to "remain in prayer with Mary, Mother of the Church, for the health of the Holy Father Francis." "This was my only night off from work and I didn't want to be anywhere else," a 24-year-old Argentinian named Jose told the National Catholic Reporter on Friday. "Francis cannot die," he added. Meanwhile, officials said there will be a new medical report update on Francis in the evening.
