Pope Liu XIVAnd, who was elected on Thursday as the first leader ever in the Roman Catholic Church, has a family blood line that reflects the relationship of his risky homeland with race-so why has the nation’s position to be borne as a long-term melting hall, and records that were discovered by genealogy scientists.
It is clear that the grandfather of the 69 -year -old Robert Brevost, the newly drunk Pope, was born abroad in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, according to the birth records of the professional genealogy specialist Chris Smiths ABC News In a recent report. When Leo, Joseph Martinez, got a marriage license for the year 1887 to supply the Jeddah of the Pope in the future, Louise Baki, his hometown was included in the name of Haiti, which was at the time the same as the Santo Domingo region.
Baquié’s birth records, at the same time, indicate that she was born in the most prominent city of Louisiana, indicates. New OrleansFor parents who married a local Catholic church.
Records from the 1900 census show that Joseph – apparently the son of Louisian – and Louise lived in a house in the seventh of the New Orleans wing, a stronghold of the city’s creed people. The couple’s house was later among the hundreds who were demolished to make way for a bridge on the highway that connects the outskirts of New Orleans to the world’s famous quarter, step This greatly reduced the residents of the region and destroyed it from the economic point of view, dozens of black companies that prevailed there.
The records of the census identified the grandparents of Mother Liu as black. Two of his aunts were identified, after about four years of the Ferguson Supreme Court case – which originated in New Orleans – the constitutionality of the apartheid in the country.
By 1920, the Martinez family moved north to Chicago and away from the southern repressive United States. The future mother of the Pope, Meldid Agnes Martinez, born in Chicago, was eight at that time. The census that included the contract from Martinezes as white.
Until 1954, the United States Supreme Court would issue a ruling that canceled the Pilessy V Ferguson precedent and considered the apartheid unconstitutional – and until then, many societies across the country have spent years in evading the decision. Several genealists have perspective that the Martins may have turned their racist identity into assimilation in Chicago, which – despite its north – had a north – had it north – Private date Discrimination and repression on the basis of skin color.
“You can understand [that] Garra Horra, family historian of the New Orleans Group, He said Associated Press. Honora added that “life has always been unstable for people with color,” Honora added.
Meldid Martinez eventually married Luis Marius Privost. The librarian and her husband – a veterans in World War II – raised three children in Chicago. The youngest, Robert, was appointed a priest in 1982; The global leader of the Catholic religious system known as Augustine has become. He led the Peruvian diocese. It was made by Pope Francis Cardinal in September 2023; The Vatican entity is responsible for choosing the new bishops all over the world.
The United States recorded a record of 47.8 million immigrants in 2023, three quarters of naturalized citizens, permanent legal population or visa-owners-all of them from the metaphor of the country dating back to the country as a melting container.
This situation was threatened when Donald Trump got a second American presidency the following year – and launched his administration Migration The campaign, which was characterized by fixed news about belief and deportation after returning to the Oval Office in January.
The Cardinals in Liu were elected to succeed in the late Francis after it has ended for two days to less than four months in the second Trump presidency. And one of the older Liu brothers, residing in the outskirts of Chicago and the director of the retired Catholic School, John Brevost, quickly. He said The New York Times: “I know he is not happy with what is going on with immigration.”
Social media users have rapidly flocked to an account that seems to belong to Liu and indicated how it showed a willingness to criticize the administration sites. One of the reckoning reversal re -essay on the Catholic Bishops in California, who attributed “racism and nasal” to Trump. Use From the phrase “bad hombres” for some Mexicans.
It was not immediately clear how much Liu might be frustrated by the CEO of the Great Great Power from which he descended, among other issues. Facing the Pope. There is no indication that Liu has publicly discussed his racist identity a lot.
John Pierrest, for his part, He said Times that his brothers did not discuss the roots of Louisiana. He also said that his direct family was not defined as black.
Vatican press release He said Leo’s father was of French and Italian origin. She said that the mother of the Pope was of Spanish origin.
Whatever the case, the University of Liwala Marimaont, Kim R. Harris, who learned the American -African religious thought and practice, noticed that you meditate on the “Liu Babua” to the light from the Americans and those we are as a people in the diaspora.
“When I think about someone brings a lot of the history of this country in his bones, it brings a completely new perspective and widens the vision of all of us,” Harris said.
