Source : NEW INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS
The goats and the fishes
Pope Leo, an Augustinian missionary, found his calling working among the poor and marginalised in Peru, where he obtained nationality in 2015.
And he wasn’t just attracted to the Andean country for its football teams.
“He loved goat, duck with rice and ceviche, those were his favourite dishes,” the bishop of Chiclayo, Leo’s former diocese, Edison Farfan told reporters.
In recent years, Peru has become a foodie destination, and dishes like ceviche — fish marinated in citrus and served cold, often with onions — have gone global.
But, according to Farfan and others, Prevost’s mission was focused on aid to those living in poverty on the periphery of society.
Keyboard cardinal
Pope Leo is not the first pontiff to post — Benedict XVI used the handle @Pontifex in 2012 — but he is the first to have a long social media history for friends and foes to pore over.
Despite US President Donald Trump hailing Prevost’s elevation as an honour for the United States, far-right trolls on Elon Musk’s X were quick to denounce him as, among other things, a “WOKE MARXIST POPE”.
Prevost’s timeline on X suggests the new pope may be on a collision course with Trump’s White House over its hardline anti-immigrant policies.
He has pushed back against Vice President JD Vance’s nativism, notably his argument that Christians should love their family, neighbours, community and fellow citizens — in that order.
On February 3, three months before being elected pope, he reposted an article headlined: “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others”.
In 14 years since his X account was created, he has posted more than 400 times on a range of hot-button issues: racism, sexual abuse by the clergy, Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
He has also amplified criticism of Trump’s anti-immigration policies, reposting a 2017 article which called refugee bans “a dark hour of US history”.
Speaks fluent ‘espanol’
In March, Trump designated English as the official language of the United States.
Two months later, the first pope to hail from the United States addressed the Vatican crowd in Italian, Latin and … Spanish, the language of his beloved Peru.
The surprised crowd — many of whose members had travelled from Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America to see who would replace Pope Francis, an Argentine — erupted in cheers.
SOURCE :- NEW INDIAN EXPRESS
