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afavour ◴[] No.43929124[source]
> "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pope-could-it-be-american-c...

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bbor ◴[] No.43929272[source]
For what it’s worth, I was just reading that Leo wasn’t seen as “completely” American due to his many years in Peru — he’s even a citizen. Take that as you will.
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tptacek ◴[] No.43930040[source]

    1955 born (chicago)
    1977 seminary grad (chicago)
    1982 ordination (->rome)
    1985 canon law doctor (->peru)
    1999 midwest augustinians (->chicago)
    2001 global augustinians (->rome)
    2015 bishop (->peru)
    2021 dicasterate (->rome)
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fblp ◴[] No.43930286[source]
Seems like he's spent 2 years in the US since he was 27.
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cjbgkagh ◴[] No.43930390[source]
At 69 that's pretty close to half of his life, and since it's the early half there is more weight to it as it forms the context from which the rest is understood.
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ekianjo ◴[] No.43933661[source]
> the context from which the rest is understood.

What? Speaking from experience, the country you go to after 20s is the one you choose, not the one you were forced to live in. This has a huge factor in your thinking more than the number of years on paper.

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hollerith ◴[] No.43942353{3}[source]
But the Church hierarchy probably decided the young priest would be stationed in Peru, not the priest himself.
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1. ekianjo ◴[] No.43943256{4}[source]
Sure, but the fact that he stayed there for many many years means that it suited him. If you want the change countries the Church has processes for that.