IMAGE CREDIT AND DESCRIPTION:Perrant, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsCardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, during the display of St. Caesarius's relics at Manila Cathedral. Image digitally brightened (and cropped, but all the images I use are cropped, so take that for granted).
LINKS
Vatican bio of Cardinal Tagle:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_tagle_la.html
Luis Antionio Gokim Tagle on FIU's Cardinals Database (by Salvadore Miranda):
https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2012-ii.htm#Tagle
Cardinal Tagle on Gcatholic.org:
http://www.gcatholic.org/p/3166
Cardinal Tagle on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btaglelag.html
Archdiocese of Manila on Gcatholic.org:
http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/mani0.htm?tab=info
Archdiocese of Manila on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmanp.htmlPope_Predictor on X:
https://x.com/pope_predictor?lang=en
500 YOC (Years of Christianity) video with Cardinal Tagle (English):
https://youtu.be/Qre_7cf05VQ?si=_oCde2TKTAQuBJXY
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TRANSCRIPT
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Today we're discussing another current Cardinal of the Catholic Church, one of the 120 or so people who will choose the next Pope when the time comes.
Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle was born on June 21, 1957 in Manila, the capital and second largest city of the Philippines, located on Luzon, the large island that makes up most of the north of the country.
When you're born in a city comparable to New York, there's no need to go far to get your education. Of course, some do, but Luis kept things local through ordination, while still maintaining the norm of getting your philosophy and theology pieces of seminary training at separate institutions.
By 25, Father Tagle was a priest for the Archdiocese of Manila, serving as a pastor in a parish south of Manila proper and as a spiritual director at a nearby seminary. By the venerable age of 26, he was serving as rector of the seminary- the San Carlos Diocesan Seminary of Imus.
Father Tagle, who prefers to go by his nickname Chito, did go further afield in 1985, studying in Rome and the Catholic University of America, where he got a doctorate in theology in 1991. Having a doctorate didn't make him too big for his britches, he resumed pastoral work, carrying on into the new millennium doing that and various special roles within the Diocese–and some work on the global scale as well, serving on the International Theological Commission from 1997 to 2002.
In 2002, he was elected Bishop of Imus, that “south of Manila proper” area where his first pastoral assignment had taken place. His principal consecrator was Cardinal Sin, who, thankfully, spoke English and knew darn well he had a funny name for a Cardinal, taking to calling his lodgings “the house of Sin”. But enough about that, I need to stay focused on Tagle's rising star, because obviously, he's not done yet.
In 2011, Chito was made Archbishop of Manila. It's hard to think of a posting more likely to get you a red hat in the globalized Church than Manila. And it may be kind of weird to hear me talk about the globalized church given catholic has always meant universal and the Catholic Church has always been a big broad thing, but the reality is that for a good l
