We, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart welcome Pope Leo XIV.

Poster circulated by Abzalon, Superior General, MSC affirmation of Leo XIV.

While everybody is posting a tribute to the new Pope, we thought it might be good to check out some MSC connections.

*    Robert Prevost studied at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, where MSC students studied, where a number of Australian MSC had sabbaticals and attended renewal programs.

*    Fr Prevost, later Bishop Prevost, was a missionary in Peru where German MSC began a mission (with several MSC Bishops there) and where the MSC sisters work.

*    As Prefect for the Dicastery of Bishops in recent years, he was instrumental in the appointments of Simon Mani and Tamati Sefo in the Pacific.

While there can be ‘guilt by association’, we are happy with ‘affirmation by association’.

(An Australian PS. Mark O’Connor FMS, Parramatta Diocese, was wanting to invite Cardinal Prevost to Australia for the Helder Camara lecture. As Superior General of the Augustinians (2001-2013), Fr Prevost visited the OSA province in Australia.  Mark revealed the Pope’s preference for Tim Tams, and something of a distaste for Vegemite.)