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Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936[18]in Flores,[19]a neighbourhoodof Buenos Aires.[18] He was the eldest[20]of five children of Mario José Bergoglio (1908–1959) and Regina María Sívori (1911–1981). Mario Bergoglio was an Italian immigrantaccountant[21]born in Portacomaro(Province of Asti) in Italy's ...
Pope Francis is sharing his life story — and spreading some hope!. Hope, an autobiography that took the 87-year-old pontiff six years to pen with co-writer Carlo Musso, will be published next ...
Pope Francis in Quito, Ecuador, in 2015. Elected on 13 March 2013, Francis is the first member of the Society of Jesus to be appointed pope and the first non-European to hold the office since the 8th century. [ 1 ] He described his papal name as pointing to what he wants to emulate in Saint Francis of Assisi: to have a poor church, for the poor ...
The pope (Latin: papa, from Ancient Greek: πάππας, romanized:páppas, lit. 'father') [ 2 ][ 3 ] is the bishop of Rome and the visible head [ a ] of the worldwide Catholic Church. He is also known as the supreme pontiff, [ b ]Roman pontiff[ c ] or sovereign pontiff. From the eighth century until 1870, the pope was the sovereign or head of ...
Pope Francis made a pastoral and state visit to Jakarta, Indonesia, from 3 to 6 September 2024. He became the third pontiff to visit the country, following Paul VI in 3‒4 December 1970 [ 1 ] and John Paul II in 8‒12 October 1989. [ 2 ] The theme of his visit was "Faith, Fraternity, and Compassion" (Indonesian: Iman, Persaudaraan dan Bela Rasa).
Bergoglio, Jorge; Skorka, Abraham (2010). Sobre el cielo y la tierra [On Heaven and Earth] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana. ISBN 9789500732932.; Bergoglio, Jorge; Skorka, Abraham (2013). On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century.
The Cardinal, who was the confessor of Pope Innocent III, was immediately sympathetic to Francis and agreed to represent Francis to the pope. After several days, the pope agreed to admit the group informally, adding that when God increased the group in grace and number, they could return for an official audience.
Website. www.papalvisit.ca. Pope Francis visited Canada from July 24 to 29, 2022, with stops in the provinces of Alberta and Quebec and the territory of Nunavut. [2] The trip mainly focused on apologizing for the Catholic Church 's role in the Canadian Indian residential school system and on reconciliation with the country's Indigenous peoples.