Pope Leo XIV Papacy : “RIGGED”!!

Dr. Jarlath Uche Opara Jarlathuche@gmail.com

No more news, not a speculation, neither a media hype nor a propaganda. It is real, real time that we have a Pope whose name few days ago was Robert Cardinal Francis Prevost.

Like other Cardinals, he went into the Sistine Chapel and came out as His Holiness.

Few minutes after the election, his name changed from Robert Francis Prevost to Leo XIV. A name he would bear till death. Robert Francis Prevost gone! . No reference to the name again except in a historical profiling; the sacrifice that comes with the Papacy, striped with everything except the one that comes with the Papal name.

Going back to his Diocese, home and visiting his family wouldn’t happen without global attention.

The Internet is awashed with pictures of him . More would surface in the coming days. If he had funny secrets, trust the internet it would throw them up.

Some of the pictures making the round sincerely showed he was RIGGED. He lived a life of RIGGED disposition. A RIGGED life that made his journey into Papacy very accelerated.

Ten years before now he was just a parish priest. Ten years after he became a Pope. Two years of being a Cardinal! What a meteoric raise!!

2014: Appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru.

2015: Appointed Bishop of Chiclayo.

2019: Appointed member of the Vatican Dicastery for the Clergy.

2020: Became a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops.

2020: Bishop Became Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Callao in Peru.

2023: Appointed Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops.

2023: Became President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America. Same year he was created a Cardinal. Same year
appointed as Member of Seven Vatican Dicasteries: Doctrine of the Faith; Evangelization; Eastern Churches; the Clergy; Institute of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; Culture and Education; and Legislative Texts. Same year he was
appointed a member of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State.

2025: He was promoted from the rank of Cardinal Deacon to Cardinal Bishop, and assigned the Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano. Few months he was elected 267th Pope.

What else can explain this kind of unprecedented raising and change in status than RIGGED?

From grass to grace. From the lowly to the echelon of the Prince of the Universal Church

Pope Leo XIV lived a RIGGED ( Routinely Intentionally Golfing Godly Endearing Demeanour)

Lessons:

Humility, dedication, love for the poor, charitable disposition and life of simplicity are tools to achieve stardom and prominence on record time.

His life reminds one of Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 11:21, “God can indeed make a poor man rich suddenly and instantly” God can accelerate ones journey in destiny in split second.

If one wants to go far, humility is the keyboard. If one wants to attract God’s attention identify with the poor. Giving to the poor is lending to God Prov. 19.17.

Pope Leo XIV indeed lent to God and in an unimaginable time frame Baba paid!

Be humble! Be simple! Be Godly! Above all have a heart for the poor. The sky remains the beginning.

If you ask me, there is nothing in pride. Nothing in living a bourgeorning life of wasteful aggrandizement. Nothing in material flaunting, but a lot in sharing ones time, talents and treasure with those who need them dispassionately.

Such was the live of Pope Francis. Pope Leo XIV is an embodiments of it. A life of RIGGED disposition.