Meet The New Pope: Chicago Native Leo XIV Doesn’t…
There’s a new pope of the Catholic Curch, and he’s the first pope to be born right here in the us.
Not only that, but Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, is of a Creole lineage that traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a native genealogist and historian.
Source: Vatican Pool
Honora discovered evidence that the Pope, a Chicago native, has maternal grandparents who referred to as New Orleans home and had been doubtless from Haiti. In truth, according to Nola.com, Leo XIV talked about in earlier interviews that his curiosity in the priesthood developed as he grew up around clergymen, whom his mom typically fed.
“Now we know why her cooking was so good,” Honora quipped. “Both (of her parents) were from New Orleans.”
From Nola.com:
When Honora heard the final title “Prevost,” he began digging, on the odd likelihood Leo XIV’s paternal line may be French Canadian or Acadian with Louisiana ties. What he discovered, to his shock, was that Prevost’s mom, Mildred Martinez, was the one with familial cords to the town.
In much less than an hour, Honora — who works as a historian for The Historic New Orleans Collection and was a researcher on the PBS documentary “Finding Your Roots” — was ready to observe the pope’s maternal grandparents to the seventh Ward, a neighborhood long acknowledged as a cultural stronghold for people of African, French, Spanish and Native American descent.
He also discovered evidence that the pope, 69, had “Creole of color roots,” according to his Facebook post. Dating back to 1722, Louisiana’s “gens de couleur libre” population was closely Roman Catholic and identified for its contributions to artwork and business.
Honora discovered the pope’s maternal grandparents, the Pope’s maternal grandparents, Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié, by monitoring down their marriage certificates, which revealed that they had been married in 1887 at Our Lady of Sacred Heart on Annette Street in New Orleans.
According to CNN, Martinez and Baquié had been both listed as Black in census data from 1900.
As for the pope’s politics, he’s not notably vocal on social media, but he has made a behavior out of reposting articles that are crucial of President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and the White House administration’s Constitution-defying immigration coverage.
In February, he shared a National Catholic Reporter article that blasted Vance over his response to a query on immigration, which he responded to by blathering on about how Christianity teaches about love and compassion for household and neighbors first and the remaining of the world second. (I guess y’all didn’t know that “America first” was truly a Bible quote from MAGA Jesus.) Leo XIV even quoted the article’s headline: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.”
According to CBS News, more not too long ago, the pope shared an op-ed piece that was crucial of the Trump administration’s deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.
And these are just latest posts. It seems the new pope has been reposting anti-Trump media, largely relating to the president’s immigration insurance policies, for at least the previous decade.
From CBS:
In 2018, he reposted Cardinal Blase Cupich’s criticism of the Trump administration’s household separation coverage during Mr. Trump’s first time period.
In 2017, he reposted a California Catholic Conference assertion opposing the administration’s stance on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration coverage, or DACA, which permits immigrants who got here to the U.S. illegally as minors to stay and work right here.
In 2015, when Mr. Trump was still a Republican major candidate, he reposted an article by Cardinal Timothy Dolan titled, “Why Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is so problematic.”
Previous posts also point out that the pope is a gun control advocate. However, before people begin making an attempt to declare the new pope as the Catholic Church’s newest progressive chief, his previous posts also point out that he’s anti-abortion and that he has regressive views on “genre ideology,” which LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD famous, “is not a term transgender people use to describe themselves, it is an inaccurate term deployed by opponents to undermine and dehumanize transgender and nonbinary people.”
Voting data show that Leo XIV has voted in both Democratic and Republican primaries in the previous.
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