PROLOGUE: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. –JOHN 10:27-28, KJV
- “Chance favors the prepared mind.”
2. The quote above -“Chance favors the prepared mind.- references the view of Dr. Louis Pasteu {1822-1895}, French Chemisty Scientist & a Contributing Father of Modern Medical Practices Impacting Public Health
3. We had no idea that the 2025 Roman Catholic Cardinals’ Conclave would select an American born, raised, educated, and Post graduate awarded Cardinal named Robert Francis Prevost, to succeed the late Pope Francis as the Chief Pontiff of the 1.4 Billion members Roman Catholic Church. Let alone we had no idea that the new now Pope Gregory IV would be a native of the City of Chicago hailing from the Southside and South Suburbs.
4. We had no idea that the 2025 Conclave election would take place on the May 8the only on the 2nd day of the sacred conference.
5. A key chance for this writer happens to be that May 8th also serves as his late elcder twin sister and brother’s birthday and a special day of his nuclear family hailing from the Black community’s Harlem, New York City, especially of the Post WWII Black Catholic Community of Harlem.
6. According to Google, “Approximately 6,000 journalists attended Pope XIV’s first press conference and public meeting in Vatican City.” The press conference occurred, May 12, 2025.
7. Google further reports, “This was a large gathering with many media outlets represented.”from aggression Moreover, Google reports one the Pope’s key remarks as “Let us disarm communication of all prjudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred, let us free it from aggression.”
8. According to Vatican News, “Only four days have passed since his election to the papacy, and Pope Leo XIV made it a point to hold an audience with the men and women who were in Rome to report on the death of Pope Francis, the conclave, and the first days of his own ministry.
9. VN also reports Pope Leo IV” invited media professionals to promote a different kind of communication, one that “does not seek consensus at all costs, does not use aggressive words, does not follow the culture of competition, and never separates the search for truth from the love with which we must humbly seek it.”
10. From a Black Theology perspective 0f OUR FATHERS BUSINESS WEEKLY the new Pope’s remarks above are good news. The especially serve as a welcome contrast to President Trump’s panning of the established order media as “fake news.”
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