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Jesuit Jorge Bergoglio walks an austere path befitting St. Francis. March 13, 2013— -- Taking the name Francis, after the saint who ministered to the poor, Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...
VATICAN CITY –Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name ...
He chose the name Pope Francis. Seminarian Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the El Salvador School, where he taught literature and psychology, in Buenos Aires in 1966. El Salvador School via AP ...
FILE - This Jan. 13, 2007 file photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, then Pope Benedict XVI, left, shakes hands with the archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge ...
FILE – Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, looks out to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after being elected 266th pontiff of the ...