Francis' Mother Didn't Want Him to Become a Priest

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Francis' Mother Didn't Want Him to Become a Priest

Francis' mother opposed his entry into the Jesuits' novitiate in 1958, he said in a January 30 audience with seminarians from Valencia, Spain. The news was shared on FaceBook.com by Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante.

One of the seminarians said that his mother hasn't accepted his decision to enter the seminary. Francis replied that he "had experienced the same situation," Bishop Munilla recalled:

"His mother, although [or maybe because?] she was Catholic, was against Jorge Mario Bergoglio's vocation and did not want to visit him in the seminary. But, finally, on the day of his priestly ordination, she knelt before her son and asked for his blessing".

Francis' advice to the young seminarian was "prayer, tenderness, and patience".

As a cardinal, Bergoglio mentioned this episode in a 2004 book with journalists Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti. According to that account, his mother "became very angry":

"When I entered the seminary, my mother didn't come with me, she didn't want to go. For years she didn't accept my decision. We didn't fight. It was just that I would come home, but she wouldn't go to the seminary", Cardinal Bergoglio said.

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la verdad prevalecelast year

There is no evidence that Bergoglio had a priestly vocation.
Bergoglio: "I come from a radical family, my grandfather was a radical in the 90s. Later, in my adolescence, I also had an incursion into 'leftism', reading books on the Communist Party that my laboratory chief Esther Ballestrino de Careaga gave me, a great woman who had previously been secretary of the Paraguayan February Revolutionary Party.
“Esther Ballestrino de Careaga showed him (young Jorge) what political activism was like and even introduced him to communist readings, which Bergoglio remembers precisely, as he does her, whom he defines as ‘extraordinary’.

la verdad prevalecelast year

This confirms that Bergoglio had no priestly vocation.
Bergoglio is a communist who entered the Jesuit order for political reasons

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But it is well known that Bergoglio lied to his mother when he infiltrated the seminary, making her believe that he was studying medicine. Let us not forget that Bergoglio previously worked with his communist mentor and in a bar. And that he has claimed that since he was a child he wanted to be a butcher. And that his communist grandfather gave him communist magazines to read. So when did his alleged priestly vocation begin?

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Luigi Scorsoppilast year

Should’ve listened to her son

Everyday for Life Canadalast yearedited

Just words, words and more words.

Mike Paul Smithlast year

Similar to Pontus pilate’s wife.

Seabasslast year

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Seabasslast year

If my son was pals with known Communists...I would also be opposed to him entering the Seminary.