Ten Days After 9/11, Future American Pope Warned Against Seeking Revenge

Ten days after the towers fell, the new prior general preached at Santa Maria del Popolo that hatred grows where 24,000 people die of hunger every day. Twenty-five years later, he is the pope.

Father Robert Prevost greets Pope John Paul II after his election as prior general of the Order of St. Augustine in September 2001. The chapter elected him on Sept. 14, his 46th birthday, three days after the attacks.

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