{"id":66388,"date":"2025-06-10T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66388"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:41:17","slug":"a-citizen-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/a-citizen-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Citizen of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"The new pope is a cosmopolitan. He has French, Spanish, Italian, and Cuban roots. His ancestors came from New Orleans. The term \u201cCreole\u201d is used for people of mixed European, African, and indigenous descent.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLike many Creole families, Leo XIV\u2019s grandparents may have moved to Chicago to escape the racial persecution in the southern United States. Pope Leo was born in Chicago on September 14, 1955, as Robert Francis Prevost. He was the youngest of three brothers; his mother was a librarian, and his father was a school principal. It was clear from the beginning that Robert would become a priest; even as a small child, he loved to play Mass. Bob, as he is known to his family, is still close to his middle brother, John, and maintains contact with his eldest brother, Louis. But Loui<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new pope is a cosmopolitan. He has French, Spanish, Italian, and Cuban roots. His ancestors came from New Orleans. The term \u201cCreole\u201d is used for people of mixed European, African, and indigenous descent. Like many Creole families, Leo XIV\u2019s grandparents may have moved to Chicago to escape the racial persecution in the southern United States. Pope Leo was born in Chicago on September 14, 1955, as Robert Francis Prevost. He was the youngest of three brothers; his mother was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9267,"featured_media":66097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8838,8823,9201],"tags":[11664,11665,8824],"class_list":["post-66388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-issues","category-reflection","category-religion-en","tag-ausgabe-22-2025-en","tag-english-issue-24-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}