One of the candidates to become the next Pope and occupies the first positions for public opinion and even for AI, is Cardinal Filipino Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle. Manila Emeritus Archbishop embodies a moderate voice, tending to the reception of homosexuals or immigrants, but above all a bridge to Asiaone of the most flourishing regions for the Catholic Church.
Although located in the reformist wing of the Curia, the purple has criticized harshly practices such as euthanasia Or the abortion law in your country, and in recent weeks it has been at the head in the ‘papable’ bets for the next conclave, especially in social networks.
Tagle (Manila, 1957) represents the great Catholic country of Asia, the Philippines, the third of the planet with a greater number of baptized In communion with Rome, more than 80 million souls, a reality that grants the purple an obvious weight among its colleagues. However, in 2019, he left the immense diocese of Manila, with more than three million faithful, to travel to Rome and put on under Francisco In the Roman curia.
Of aristocratic origins and Spanish ancestors, Tagle lived his childhood in the city of Imus and, three years after ordering priest on February 27, 1982 he moved to the United States to doctorate Summa cum laude In theology in Washington. Then he returned to his country but soon his intellectual and oratory skills He was opened the doors of the Holy See: in 1997 John Paul II appointed him a member of the International Theological Commission, the power of the powerful congregation of the doctrine of faith.
A five years later, in 2001, his Episcopal management As Bishop of Imus and in 2011 Benedict XVI ascended him as an influential archbishop of Manila. The German Pope also appointed him Cardinal in November 2012, in his last town hall before his historic resignation, but Tagle maintained his ascending career in Francisco’s age, showing up to his teaching based on solidarity and welcome.
The “Asian Bergoglio”
Known as “Asian Bergoglio“, His role in the curia began in 2019 as a prefect of the congregation for the evangelization of the peoples, while between 2015 and 2022 he also held the presidency of Caritas Internationalis.
In their public interventions it has been shown very hard with abortioncontraceptive practices or abuse by the clergy, as well as with the uncompromising position that the Church has traditionally shown with homosexuals or divorced. In 2015, in an interview to The Telegraphhe acknowledged that the “hard” and “severe” position of the Catholic clergy towards homosexuals or, for example, single mothers, had caused “Durable damage“
Likewise, Cardinal Tagle embodies, above all, the interest of the modern church in the young Asiato which Francisco, as a good Jesuit, gave great importance (one of his last trips, the longest, went to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore).
Asia and Oceania are a young and fertile territory where faith grows every year, in the face of the negative trend of the most secularized Europe and North America. So much so, according to an annual report by the FIDES agency, of the missionaries, the Asian Catholics increased by 889,000while those of Oceania in 123,000. It is the third most prosperous region for the Vaticanbehind Africa and the entire American continent.
Impact on social networks
The cardinal is also very attentive to communication and, therefore, the new media and social networkshis appearances being frequent on National Television Filipina. The vehement of tagle calls against systems based on the greed and exploitation They resonate in recent days in social networks such as Tiktok, especially his speech at the International Eucharistic Congress of the Canadian city of Quebec in 2008.
“How many workers will see a decent salary sacrificed to the god of benefit? How many women will be sacrificed to the God of domination? How many children are being sacrificed to the god of lust? How many trees, rivers or hills are being sacrificed to the god of progress? How many poor are they sacrificed to the God of greed? “He asked before the public.
Tagle has reached thousands of young people and network users in different ways. Some of them, thanks to a video that went viral in which the religious appears Dancing smiling In a small performance in the church and other images in which the song sings Imagine by John Lennon, moments that have aroused the sympathy of the population.
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