{"id":333196,"date":"2025-12-07T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/how-robert-prevost-became-the-first-american-pope\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:22:29","slug":"how-robert-prevost-became-the-first-american-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=333196","title":{"rendered":"How Robert Prevost Became the First American Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">While Pope Leo owes his formal education almost solely to the northern hemisphere, much of his shaping as a practitioner occurred in Peru. \u201cThose are the life experiences that give you life to continue on, that nourish you,\u201d says Turley, who was Prevost\u2019s superior when he arrived. \u201cAs a young priest, to go through that, and see how beautiful it is, how poor people can be, and yet all of the goodness and the power of people when they come together, and the wonderful things that they can do if you start breaking down prejudices and division.\u201d Prevost said as much at St. Jude\u2019s: \u201cThe part of ministry that most shaped my life is Peru.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">After a decade in South America, it must have been quite an adjustment to take on the role of head of his home Augustinian province, which stretches throughout the Midwest and into Canada. One of his duties as provincial prior was to minister to Augustinian schools, and he was called in to help out St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago. The students have a retreat every year, and the school likes to invite priests who are unfamiliar to the boys to hear confession so they don\u2019t feel awkward. In 2000, Prevost was one of those priests. \u201cI had gone to confession several times before, but it was like two minutes, let me get out of here as quickly as I can,\u201d says Patrick \u201cPJ\u201d McCarthy. \u201cBut this was more of just a conversation.\u201d The two sat knee to knee in the darkened room and talked about underage drinking and sibling rivalry, among other things. \u201cHe was not judging me, and he was just very open,\u201d recalls McCarthy. Mike Stawski, who was on the retreat as a student leader, noticed right away that Prevost was different from most priests. \u201cWhat was so fascinating about him was that almost immediately, we forgot that he wasn\u2019t with us the whole time. 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