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| New Jesuit “Black Pope” (True Power Behind Rome?) Superior General Elected To Help Petrus Romanus Carry Out Global Agenda
October 19, 2016 by SkyWatch Editor
 No part of the Catholic Church is more fraught with the myth or intrigue than the Society of Jesus, known popularly as the Jesuits. Two-hundred-fifteen delegates of the largest Catholic religious order assembled last week in Rome to elect a new superior general – the society’s 36th General Congregation in its 476-year history. After completing four days of murmuratio – careful consultation – the delegates did not take long to select Arturo Sosa, a political scientist who has been an important defender of democracy in his native Venezuela. An ardent critic of the authoritarian moves of the Chavez government and its impact on the most vulnerable, Father Sosa is well versed in exercising leadership in challenging times. But the Jesuit election of a new superior general may also signal a new leadership moment for Pope Francis, the first Jesuit to be elected pope. The delegates have completed the first of two tasks at hand: They have selected a leader who is entrusted with nearly absolute authority over the order’s more than 16,000 members. The second task is to set an organizational agenda that will be carried out over the next decade. (READ MORE) |
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