Cardinal Chito Tagle is one of the candidates for Pope, the Vicar of JESUS. If ever, he will be the last pope as prophesied by Malachi to be an anti Christ. GOD forbid.
The conclave begins Tuesday, March 12.
Let's just pray whatever is the will of the Father, let it be done!
Messages of Mama Mary and Jesus
"My children, a conclave shall start, and without prayers you will receive one on the seat of Peter, one with dark spirits, consorting with the devil." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1978
POPE
"You will continue now, My child, by directing all to pray a constant vigilance of prayer for your clergy, for the Bishop of Rome, your Pope, and for all mankind, for all poor sinners whose minds have been poisoned by satan." - Jesus, November 24, 1979
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Congratulations Cardinal Antonio TAGLE!
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said he and other
Filipino prelates—Archbishop Jose Palma and Archbishop Romulo
Valles—waited outside the Vatican synod hall after hearing the news that
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle had been named cardinal.
“When I hugged him, he cried on my shoulders. Tears of joy but
also tears of fear! Every grace is also a responsibility, he told me
later. We pray with joy now. Let us pray for Cardinal Tagle on the
months and years ahead. Rejoice dear Philippines! One of our sons is now
a cardinal!” Villegas said in a statement released in Manila.
Clerics and lay leaders echoed the same joy and fear that
Villegas expressed following the surprise announcement by Pope Benedict
XVI that the 55-year-old Tagle would be elevated to cardinal at the
consistory on Nov. 24 in the Vatican.
Tagle is scheduled to return to Manila on Nov. 1. He will
celebrate Mass on Nov. 3 in Paco, Manila, to launch the “Year of Faith”
in his archdiocese. continue reading at
Nation hails new cardinal
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CNN analyst sees Manila archbishop a 'papalcontender'
<image001.jpg>By Philip C. Tubeza in Manila/Philippine Daily Inquirer |ANN – Sun, Oct 23, 2011
Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - Habemus papam (We have a pope)?
He
has not even been officially installed, but new Manila Archbishop Luis
Antonio Tagle has already been tagged as a "papal contender" by a
respected international Vatican watcher.
Writing
in his blog, CNN Senior Vatican analyst John Allen Jr. tagged the
54-year-old prelate as a "new papal contender," describing Tagle as "a
rising star in the Asian Church" and his appointment by Pope Benedict
XVI deserved "to be on the global Catholic radar screen."
"The
big news from the Philippines has been the October 13 appointment of
Luis Antonio Tagle as the new Archbishop of Manila, putting him in line
to become a cardinal the next time Benedict XVI hosts a consistory,"
Allen said in his blog at the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) website.
"Youthfulness
aside, a striking number of people who know Tagle believe that this is a
guy who, one day, could be pope," Allen said.
"Even
if that doesn't pan out, Tagle is destined to be an important face and
voice for the burgeoning Catholic population in Asia and the entire
developing world, and that makes him someone worth getting to know," he
added.
Allen
notes that Tagle was known for his humility, humor, warmth, simplicity,
ability to explain complex theological ideas in layman's terms, while
not being afraid to raise questions about controversial church issues.
"Although
a loyal churchman, Tagle is unafraid to raise tough questions (at the
2005 synod, he pointedly said the church must confront the priest
shortage, which struck some as a way of hinting at flexibility on
celibacy) or to challenge what he considers abuses (some of the toughest
language you'll ever find denouncing clerical arrogance and privilege
is in his writings)," Allen said.
During
that 2005 synod of bishops in Rome, Tagle raised his concerns about the
shortage of priests during Vatican's own press conference where he was
one of the presenters.
"Theologically
and politically, Tagle comes off as balanced. He's taken strong
positions against a proposed 'Reproductive Health' bill in the
Philippines, which includes promotion of birth control. Yet his towering
social concern is defense of the poor, and he's also got a strong
environmental streak," Allen said.
He described Tagle as a "gifted communicator, making him a highly sought-after speaker and media personality."
"He
drew rave reviews for his performance at a 2008 International
Eucharistic Congress in Quebec, where observers say he brought an entire
stadium to tears," Allen said.
"Vatican-watchers
also rated him among the most impressive contributors to both the 2005
Synod on the Eucharist and the 2008 Synod on the Word of God. He's also a
very 21st century prelate-he hosts a program on YouTube and he's got
his own Facebook page," he added.
Allen
has noted that while Tagle, at 54, is "in church terms...still a kid,"
the new shepherd of Manila's 2.7 million Catholics was already seen as
"a rising star in the Asian Church."
"The
story goes that back in the mid-1990s, when then-Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger introduced Tagle to Pope John Paul II as a new member of the
Vatican's International Theological Commission, Ratzinger jokingly
assured the pope that the youthful-seeming Filipino had, in fact,
received his first communion," Allen said.
"(After
theological studies abroad, Tagle) quickly came to be seen as a rising
star in the Asian church, explaining his appointment in 1997 to the
Vatican's main doctrinal advisory body," he added.
Fr.
Joseph Komonchak, one of the leading Catholic theologians in the US and
Tagle's doctoral teacher at the Catholic University of America, said
Tagle could have become the "best theologian" in Asia if he had not been
appointed bishop.
"He
was one of the best students I had in over 40 years of teaching, but as
intelligent and diligent as he was, he was perhaps better known and
loved by his professors and by his fellow students for the simplicity
and holiness of his life," Komonchak said in the blog of Commonweal
magazine.
"He
could have become the best theologian in the Philippines, or even in
all of Asia, if he had been given the opportunity, but in his country
the demands for the kind of teaching and preaching that he can offer are
so many that a man of his talents will never have much time for reading
and writing," he added.
Allen
and Komonchak also touched on Tagle's association with the
controversial Bologna-based "History of Vatican II" project, which has
been criticized by conservative Catholics - including in the Vatican's
own newspaper L'Osservatore Romano - for providing a "liberal"
interpretation of the historic Second Vatican Council.
"Tagle
served for 15 years on the editorial board of the Bologna-based
'History of Vatican II' project founded by Giuseppe Alberigo, criticized
by some conservatives for an overly progressive reading of the
council," Allen said.
Komonchak
said Tagle wrote the chapter on "Black Week" or the last week of the
third session of the Council in 1964. It came out in volume four of the
five-volume "History of Vatican II."
Tagle's
association with this "liberal" Catholic project makes his appointment
more intriguing since the Pope is known for his conservative views on
Catholic doctrine.
"It
is good to know that such an association is not enough to make oneself
entirely persona non grata in the Vatican. I suspect that it was
(Tagle's) work on the International Theological Commission that
impressed the present Pope," Komonchak said.
Allen
said Alberto Melloni, an Italian academic and writer who has been
directing the Bologna project, called Tagle "a thinker of real value"
whose dissertation represented an important chapter in the history of
Vatican II, and someone who's "talented and serious."
"Back
in the Philippines, it would be a gross understatement to say that
Tagle, who goes by the nickname Chito,' is simply well-liked. In truth,
most Filipino Catholics I know love the guy - for his warmth and humor,
for his simplicity (he routinely eschews clerical dress), for his
ability to express complex ideas in attractive and understandable argot,
for his balance and openness, and for his lack of ego," Allen said.
"He
actually told a Catholic radio station in the Philippines this week
that when he first heard he was going to Manila, he didn't tell anybody,
because 'I thought maybe the pope would change his mind,'" he added.
Allen noted that one Filipino commentator noted Tagle as having "a theologian's mind, a musician's soul and a pastor's heart."
"In
the Imus diocese, Tagle was famous for not owning a car and taking the
bus to work every day, describing it as a way to combat the isolation
that sometimes comes with high office," Allen said.
"He
was also known for inviting poor beggars outside the cathedral to come
in and eat with him; one woman was quoted this week describing a time
she went looking for her blind, out-of-work, alcoholic husband,
suspecting she might track him down in a local bar, only to find that he
was lunching with the bishop," he added.
Allen
added that another "typical story" happened after Tagle arrived in Imus
when a small chapel located "in a run-down neighborhood was waiting for
a priest to say Mass for a group mostly made up of day laborers at
around 4 a.m."
"Eventually
a youngish cleric showed up on a cheap bicycle, wearing simple clothes
and ready to start the Mass. An astonished member of the congregation
realized it was the new bishop, and apologized that they hadn't prepared
a better welcome," Allen said.
"Tagle
said it was no problem; he got word late the night before that the
priest was sick, and decided to say the Mass himself," he added.
Being
among the top four Catholic countries in the world in terms of
population, the Philippines could be considered as a "Catholic
superpower" and one of the nations destined to be "pace-setters in the
church of the 21st century," Allen said.
