Born in 1955, Robert Francis Prevost and growing up as a Sox fan in an ordinary Chicago neighborhood, his humble background prepared him for the priesthood and more specifically as an Augustinian missionary dedicated to the people of Peru.
“And behold, I am with you always, until the end of
the age.” (MT 28:20).
With that, Christ Jesus bid farewell to his disciples,
in the physical sense, as he ascended into the
heavens.