In Chicago, people are very excited about the fourteenth Pope Liu, or Father Bob, as those who knew Robert Francis have long invited him to reflective. It is impressive that Pope Liu imagines wandering in the city, floundering on an Italian sandwich, Beef, defends a deep pizza, and takes a white Sox game. “Da Bob.”
Several residents of Chicago with whom their six -degree stories spoke. Mimi Kwan, Director of Governmental Affairs at the Museum of the field and the programs she sponsored, sent a screenshot of a text message from her parents: “Tom and I have a close close relationship with the new Pope !!! And his close friends! She told me that she heard a woman on a table awaiting her, “I am a kind of big deal – I am linked to the door.”
Cesar Izkoiredo, the owner of TSTE of Peru, a famous restaurant in the Rogers Park neighborhood, said he cried while looking at a picture of his mother when you know that the new Pope was from Chicago and Peru. Pope Liu spent more than two decades in northern Peru, first as a young missioner in Chulkanas and Tergello, almost continuously from 1985 to 1998, then again from 2015 to 2023, when he held the position of Chiclopic Bishop. In this regard, the Pope is barely an exception, as many Chicago priests were sent to do a missionary work in Latin America, according to historian Debora Canter. But because of his love for the country, Leo became Peruvian citizen in 2015.
IzquierDo, who was born in Lima, said it was a “double sensation” that the new Pope came from the two places he knew closely. He indicated that the restaurant Seco De Cordero The dish – cooked with red wine, beer, insulin, red pepper, and pumpkin, and served with white rice and Canary beans – SECO De Cordero Al Estilo León will be renamed. (IzquierDo heard that the Pope’s favorite meal is a goat with Inca Kola. For the moment, the list features special goats, in honor of Liu, but it is possible to rename the sheep dish after him). A few days later, a student in North Western told me, where I study, that the Vatican flag was flying in front of the restaurant. Cesar Sarah’s daughter told me that the two regulators who come to the restaurant – most of them from the Peruvian – have taken screaming, “El Papa Es Peruano Y La Papa, También– Pope Peru, and potatoes also (potatoes were first domesticated in the Andes Mountains. The Spaniards brought them to Europe in the sixteenth century).
The excitement in the most clear sacred halls as well. The Cathedral of the Holy Name, in the heart of the city center of Chicago, held a special mass in honor of Pope Liu. “A natural tendency for us to be grateful because one of his colleagues in Chicagagan has been elected to a higher. Father Michael Trill, the priest in St. Thomas, the Apostle, a historical black church in Hyde Park, who said it is now “a third black, a third white, everything else”, that his diocese is “over the moon” about the election of Leo. During a mass in the Spanish language in the Church of St. Paul in Bilsen, mostly in Latini neighborhood, southwest of the city center, Father Domingo Hortado Badilo said, after mentioning the birth of the Pope in Chicago, and the many languages he is talking about, and his mandate in Peru, “We have many things to celebrate and thank God for.” The diocese, which takes the moment of papal frenzy, will hold a mass on June 14 in the average field, where White Sox plays, while the team will be outside the city for a series against Texas Rangers.
When Liu was in his late twenties, after completing his studies in the Catholic theological union and after coordinating in the Santa Monica de Agseniani Church, in Rome, but before his first period in Peru, he studied in St. Rita from Castia Upper School, on the southern side. He visited the parish last August, as a basic rule, to celebrate St. Claire’s Day of Montagu. The day after the election of the Pope, Father Tom McCarthy, director of community relations at St. Rita, who knew the Pope for more than forty years, published for two minutes. video To the school page on Facebook. “I just want to talk to you on behalf of the entire St. Rita family about how we are all proud of, because it is one of us. If you are young, if you are one of the parents, if you are serious, aunt, uncle, one of the supporters, Sant Rita’s friend, this is around us all. The video contains fifty -five thousand views.
McCarthy is also a profession manager in Augustine County Middle August for a good lawyer, which means that he is responsible for employing new priests in this matter. He told me that Augustine’s professions of North America, Beafria.orgAnd, which usually gets about a thousand visits per month, got thirty -seven thousand visits in the days after the election of Pope Liu.
All excitement about Liu raises the question: Will the Pope born in Chicago give a boost that is intensified by the Catholic Church in the city and in other regions of the United States where Catholicism is declining? Since Liu was elected, the number of people attending the Mass was. Lori Doyle, who runs the calls of the Holy Name Cathedral, told me that the services were only a permanent room. But will the stumbling block continue? Pope Francis, the first Pope of the Americas, was very popular in the United States, but in March 2014, a year after his election, the Pew Research Center found that there was no “influence of Pope Francis” among non -practitioners. However, Father Try believes that things may be different this time, because Pope Liu is Pope Chicago – the American Pope.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Archbishop Patrick Phalan and James Edward Kogeli, both of which were appointed by Pope Liu, sponsored separate dioceses for ethnic groups in Chicago. The city has witnessed tremendous population growth, due to migration from countries such as Ireland, Germany, Poland and Italy. Hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved to Chicago during the great migration, after which many turned to Catholicism. About twenty thousand Mexican, most of them Catholics, arrived during and after the Mexican Revolution. Ethnic dioceses helped to settle these new societies individually, if not in the company with each other. The Mass was in Latin, but the bones were their own languages, which were presented by the priests who shared their heritage. The Polish Chicago community in Saint Stanislaus Costtec is worshiped. The Italians went to Mrs. Pompeii. The African Americans went to St. Anasel. The Mexicans went to the Church of Lady of Guadalobi. There were more than a thousand priests, hundreds of diocese and narrow schools.
In Chicago today, many Catholics still hear a mass alongside the members of their ethnic group. Liu: Black Catholics claims the roots of his mother’s family in Haiti and New Orleans, the Latin Catholics because it is the Peruvian citizen, and the Catholics from all the other heritage due to the leadership positions he occupied in recent years, which asked him to travel and meet the world around the world.
But the Catholic Church in Chicago today has shrunk. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Chicago diocese consisted of one and a half million people-that is, half of the city’s population. Now Chicago is less than the third Catholic. The nationals had to close, and the associated schools remained open through monotheism. But many Catholics in the city hope that Pope Liu can improve church horizons. In Chicago, like other cities with a Catholic population, the church increases in migrant societies, especially Latin America, in many vitality. In a city of thirty per cent, Latinians make up nearly half of the Catholics.
During the special mass of the Cathedral of the Holy Name, Bishop Sullivan said: “Once we discovered that she was Chicago, the question was: Is he a fan of Sox eggs or is he a lover of cubs? Chicago becomes curious about Catholicism due to Leo’s associations of the sporting teams in Chicago, but, Sullivan suggests that they will only remain if they are transferred through the teachings of the church.
