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...Benedict temporarily moved into the papal summer residence as his successor, the Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was selected, becoming Pope Francis....
...“The difficulty of thinking about Pope Francis resigning is what kind of post-papal life could there be for Jorge Mario Bergoglio,” said Faggioli....
...It was released on the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, from whom Jorge Mario Bergoglio took his papal name. The Vatican tries to avoid politically partisan and electoral pronouncements....
...The prominent presence of the Argentine Pope in Las Palabras reflects another strong personal connection: Valdés became friends with Jorge Bergoglio when the latter was archbishop of Buenos Aires and later...
...Edwin Chow, acting president of the Hong Kong Federation of Catholic Students, said when two students personally had urged the pontiff to back the protest movement during a brief meeting at a Rome youth...
...In a classic example of disruption, the cardinals of the conclave — in effect the “board” of the Catholic Church — went for an outsider: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the...
...As a parish priest in poor areas of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was so struck by Pope John Paul II’s 1998 trip to Cuba that he wrote a book about it....
...Here are four things to watch as the Argentine pontiff, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, returns to his home continent....
...Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a little known Argentine prelate in 2013, called himself after St Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century friar emblematic of Christian reverence for nature....
...Known before his election as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis is clearly a pontiff in a hurry....
...Jorge Mario Bergoglio absorbed them all. He used to go with his father, an immigrant Italian railway worker, to watch the San Lorenzo team....
...Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentine bishop virtually unknown outside Latin America, spoke to the crowds in an affable, unceremonious manner....
...One of the extraordinary features of this pope – Jorge Mario Bergoglio, until this year a little-known Argentine Jesuit prelate – is his way with words, which seem to cast Church orthodoxy in a new light...
...“He communicates great spiritual authority, with his simple lifestyle,” said Halik, noting Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s decision to take the name of Francis, the saintly friar who gave up the trappings of wealth...
...Jorge Mario Bergoglio, almost unknown to the world before his ascent this spring to the chair of Saint Peter after the sudden abdication of Pope Benedict XVI, is creating a real stir in the Roman Catholic...
...When Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuit community in the Argentine city of Córdoba in the early 1990s, the roof of the college needed fixing but the finances were in a terrible state and the priests...
...When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio decided he would be called Francis in his new life as Pope, he knew people would understand that his choice was charged with symbolism....
...By Guy Dinmore and Giulia Segreti The first pope from the Americas, the first from the Jesuit order, the first to name himself Francis … the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio signals a break with the past...
...Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, a 76-year-old Jesuit intellectual, greeted the world as Pope Francis on Wednesday evening, the first pope from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than...
...Pope Francis has called for the Roman Catholic church to match rebuilding with spirituality or risk becoming just a “compassionate NGO” as details started to leak of how the first pontiff from the Americas...
...Paulo newspaper wrote in an editorial that the selection of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pontiff was testament to the “intransparency” of the Church and the conclave “election” process....
...It is too soon to say whether Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, will win back the Roman Catholics in Europe and the US who have learnt to practise their religion in indifferent defiance of the doctrinal...
...Yet the dissident theologian Hans Küng is probably right to call Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as he was known until Wednesday, the “best choice possible”....
...Yet it only took the conclave of cardinals a couple of days to elect Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new head of the church....
...As the Jesuit cardinal of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio lived in a simple apartment instead of the archbishop’s palace, cooked his own meals and rode the bus to work....
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