F
riday marked the first year of Pope Leo’s reign as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church. One year ago, I interrupted weekday Mass at 12:09 pm my time for the first and only time to approach the priest at the altar after gesturing towards my phone. He gestured for me to step forward. I did. I needed to say only two words: “white smoke,” after which I returned to my seat. He then announced to those present, “we have a new Holy Father.”
And no, I do not intend to interrupt a Mass ever again.
Pope Leo has done a lot of good this past year, especially in the area of attacking the plague that is abortion. He has been around the world, doing the works of the Church. Under his leadership, the Church will certainly grow even faster than it already is. It’s been a great first year and it can only go uphill from here.
It should be noted that the pope, once known as Robert Prevost, is from Chicago. You know what that means, right? It means that we may well hear him say:
“Hey! Beautiful soul you got there. Be a shame if somethin’ happened to it! I’m just sayin’!”
It should also be noted that he is humble. Perhaps he became even more humble when he called back home to his American bank. All he wanted to do was change his phone number and address. When advised that he’d have to come to a branch in person, he tried to play the pope card, something that he’s certainly entitled to do.
He asked the representative if it’d make any difference if he was the pope. She hung up on him. Can you imagine being that person…the person who hung up on the pope? If she’s Catholic, she’ll never live it down and she will likely have to change parishes. But then again, I really can’t blame her.
Who would think that the pope would do his own bidding? Of course, one would have to be an idiot to try to impersonate the pope, so I guess there are arguments on either side.
He’s doing a great job as pope, but let’s keep the humble stories coming!