{"id":3511,"date":"2023-03-13T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesuitssouthern.africa\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2023-03-13T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T14:33:53","slug":"10-years-of-francis-he-is-my-pope-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesuitssouthern.africa\/pt-pt\/2023\/03\/13\/10-years-of-francis-he-is-my-pope-too\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years of Francis: He is my Pope too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuits.global\/2023\/03\/07\/10-years-of-francis-he-is-my-pope-too\/\">jesuits.global<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fr. Patrick Mulemi, of Lusaka, Zambia, offers his reflections on the Francis Papacy in our \u201c10\u00a0Years of\u00a0Francis\u201d series.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is 13 March 2013. I am parish priest in Matero, a sprawling poor neighborhood of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. More than 10,000 kilometers away in Rome, the cardinals are in conclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have just celebrated evening Mass and I am chatting away with parishioners as they are exiting the church. Suddenly someone shouts, \u201cwe have a new pope!\u201d I rush to the presbytery, turn on the television, and&#8230; \u201che is a Jesuit!\u201d A Jesuit??? What does it mean for the Church and the Society of Jesus? I didn&#8217;t see it coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has chosen the name Francis, it is announced. My first thought is \u201cThe Poor Man of Assisi\u201d. And I am right. Perhaps that\u2019s because I am living and working in a poor neighborhood. After Mass the next day, after I had mentioned \u201cFrancis our Pope\u201d for the first time in the Eucharistic prayer, an elderly woman approached me after Mass and smiling said to me, \u201cHe is my pope too.\u201d I knew at that time that the Holy Spirit had spoken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d later meet Pope Francis on a number of occasions when I worked in Rome. A Jesuit, with a Franciscan name, in a Dominican habit. A pope for everyone. God\u2019s gift to the Church. 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