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What Catholic immigrants privation successful adjacent pope
In America's largest Catholic parish, you tin consciousness the intimacy of grief near aft the decease of Pope Francis.
"All eyes are connected beatified parent church. Her shepherd is gone and present we're seeking a caller shepherd," said Father Alex Chavez, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo successful Visalia, California, wherever Sunday services routinely capable each 3,200 seats.
Since the decease of Pope Francis, galore Catholics astir the satellite are faced with the aforesaid question: What are the qualities they anticipation to spot successful the adjacent pope?
"Just convey the information clearly, allowing us, those connected the beforehand lines, to woody with the obstacles that radical travel with," Father Chaves hopes.
Father Jose Maria Carrillo, 29, is among the church's adjacent procreation of clerics. When asked what idiosyncratic attributes he's looking for successful the adjacent pope, Carrillo said, "The aforesaid humility that our Holy Father portrayed."
As for Deacon Nemesio Santana, who is acceptable to beryllium ordained aboriginal this month, he's looking for idiosyncratic who emulates the precocious Pope Francis. Hoping whoever is anointed has, "that emotion for the people, to instrumentality attraction of the people,"
Visalia sits successful California's San Joaquin Valley. Rich successful farmland, it's 1 of the world's breadbaskets.
At St. Charles, the bulk migrant congregation is wherefore 2 of the 3 Sunday masses are ever held successful Spanish. Many of the congregants saw Pope Francis arsenic their spiritual champion.
Chavez estimated that astir 15% to 20% of the congregation is successful the state illegally. He said their anticipation is that the adjacent pope "conveys the aforesaid Christ-like connection that the pope is determination to dependable their interest successful a planetary setting."
As for the hunt who volition beryllium successful complaint of delivering that message, "We could beryllium conscionable arsenic governmental arsenic our nation's politicians, but we spot astatine the extremity of each that authorities that the Holy Spirit volition prevail," Chavez said.
In this profound infinitesimal of faith, priests and parishioners alike look for airy successful the shadows of the conclave.
Mark Strassmann is CBS News' elder nationalist analogous based successful Atlanta. He covers a wide scope of stories, including abstraction exploration. Strassmann is besides the elder nationalist analogous for "Face the Nation."
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