Habemus Popam

 What a good choice for a Pope.  He speaks Spanish, English and Italian.  An American who comes from working class South side of Chicago who worked years in Peru.  Can connect the Southern Hemisphere with the Northern Hemisphere. At a time when Fascism threatens Democracy, we get this fellow as Pope.  An American Pope can bring people in our country around to the needs of the suffering in our world.  He is very pragmatic and down to earth, so I think he realizes that governments are not able to do it all for everybody.  What is possible instead of “shoulds.”  An ear and heart for the immigrant, but also for trying to make South America a place where native people will want to live and grow.  His middle name is “Francis” his baptismal name.  Though American, he spent a lot of time outside The USA.  And he is an Augustinian.  Augustine is a favorite of many Cardinals and Bishops.  And Leo XIII in 1891 emphasized a “new thing” when he stood up for the working class in the Gilded Age of the rich getting richer.  And a Cubs fan.