{"id":13963,"date":"2013-03-18T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13963"},"modified":"2013-03-18T20:39:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:39:11","slug":"maria-elena-bergoglio-on-her-brothers-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/03\/maria-elena-bergoglio-on-her-brothers-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Elena Bergoglio on her brother&#8217;s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Buenos Aires (CNN) \u2013 Maria Elena Bergoglio was in her home west of Buenos Aires last week when she heard the shocking news: Jorge Mario Bergoglio \u2013 her brother \u2013 was the new pope.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, she had prayed that the cardinals wouldn\u2019t pick him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the previous conclave, I was praying for him not to be elected \u2026 because I didn\u2019t want my brother to leave,\u201d she told CNN en Espa\u00f1ol on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s a position that was a little selfish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this time around, Bergoglio said she changed her tone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prayed that the Holy Spirit would intervene and not listen to me. And it didn\u2019t listen to me,\u201d she said, laughing. \u201cIt did what it wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, soon after the white smoke billowed out from the Sistine Chapel chimney, she heard her brother\u2019s voice crackling through the telephone line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost died,\u201d she said. \u201cThe telephone rang and my son answered. I heard him say, \u2018ooooh, God.\u2019 I couldn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<br \/>\nHer brother, who chose the name Pope Francis, told her not to worry and reassured her he was well \u2013 something she\u2019s also seen watching his face as the events of recent days unfolded on television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him I wanted to hug him,\u201d she said, \u201cand he told me that we are already embracing from a distance, which is also something that I feel and that is real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, the pope told her to pass along his warm greetings to the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018I cannot call everyone. We are a very big family, so please send them my love. Because if I call everyone, it will empty the Vatican coffers,\u2019 \u201d Bergoglio said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/18\/world\/americas\/argentina-pope-sister\/index.html\">(source)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buenos Aires (CNN) \u2013 Maria Elena Bergoglio was in her home west of Buenos Aires last week when she heard the shocking news: Jorge Mario Bergoglio \u2013 her brother \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13964,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions\/13964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}