新书披露教皇方济各究竟是一个怎样的人

While running the archdiocese of Buenos Aires, Archbishop Bergoglio showed the same impulse toward simplicity and love for the poor that have become the hallmarks of his papacy. He inveighed against priests who display “spiritual worldliness” and told Elisabetta Piqué, a journalist for La Nación in Argentina (and the author of another fine biography, “Francis: Life and Revolution,” Loyola Press): “In Gospel terms, every elevation implies a descent; you have to abase yourself in order to serve better.”

在掌管布宜诺斯艾利斯大主教区期间，贝尔格里奥大主教表现出同样的简朴作风和对穷人的爱，这些品质已成为他这任教皇的标志。他痛斥那些表现出“精神世俗”的神父，对阿根廷《民族报》(La Nación)记者伊丽莎白·皮克(Elisabetta Piqué，她写过另一本精彩传记《方济各生平及改革》[Francis: Life and Revolution]，洛约拉出版社[Loyola Press])说：“用《福音书》的话说，每次提升都意味着下降;为了更好地服务民众，你必须谦卑。”

He was an innovative archbishop, reaching out to political leaders who opposed the church and establishing close friendships with Christian leaders, rabbis and imams. In 2004, he became the first bishop to visit the Islamic Center of the Argentine Republic. Mr. Ivereigh deftly shows that much as Pope Francis (and I) believe that the Holy Spirit, in the pope’s words, “changed” him after his election, the same radical openness that the world now sees in Vatican City characterized his life in Buenos Aires.

他担任大主教时很有革新意识，接触反对教会的政治领袖，与基督教领袖、拉比和伊玛目建立亲密友谊。2004年，他成为第一个参观阿根廷伊斯兰中心的主教。伊凡里巧妙地展示出，尽管教皇方济各(还有我)认为，他当选后，圣灵“改变了”他(教皇方济各的原话)，但是如今世人在梵蒂冈城看到的这种激进的开放，与他在布宜诺斯艾利斯时的作风一模一样。

The most controversial part of Mr. Ivereigh’s book has proved to be a passage describing Cardinal Bergoglio’s election as pope. Mr. Ivereigh writes that Cardinal Bergoglio gave his assent to a group of four cardinals (including Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the former archbishop of Westminster, for whom Mr. Ivereigh once worked) who were planning to gather support for his candidacy. (Such assent is verboten in conclaves.) All four cardinals have denied this, and the author has said he would amend the sentence in future editions. But the coalescing of groups behind prospective popes is part of the conclave process, and the Holy Spirit can work through that as well.

伊凡里的书中最具争议的部分是对枢机主教贝尔格里奥当选教皇的描述。伊凡里写道，枢机主教贝尔格里奥准许四位枢机主教(包括前威斯敏斯特大主教科马克·墨菲-奥康纳[Cormac Murphy-O’Connor]，伊凡里曾为他工作过)为他争取候选资格的计划(教皇选举会议禁止这种准许行为)。四位枢机主教都否认了这件事，作者说他将在未来的版本中修改这句话。但是教皇候选者背后的团体联合是教皇选举会议的一部分，圣灵也可以参与这个过程。