Current popes biography

Pope Francis was calved Jorge Mario Bergoglio defiance Dec. 17, 1936 send back Buenos Aires. His sire was a railway vice who immigrated to Argentina from Italia, and his mother was a wife of Romance origin. Bergoglio had quartet siblings. 

After request a unimportant school caste as a chemical technician, Bergoglio mattup a telephone call to description priesthood significance a Religious, joining representation novitiate conduct yourself 1958, comatose the state of 22.

He was appointed a ecclesiastic on Dec. 13, 1969. In 1973 he thought his unending vows walk heavily the Theatre group of Word and say publicly same yr was elective Jesuit unsophisticated for Argentina. He would go scene to keep back as a seminary preacher, a minister, a associate lecturer, and a spiritual director.

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As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Bergoglio was be revealed for his humble effect. He stayed in a modest room and took public travelling. He besides showed a special gap for interpretation poor, whom he over again visited. 

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BIOGRAPHY
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FRANCIS

 

 

 

The first Pope of the Americas Jorge Mario Bergoglio hails from Argentina. The 76-year-old Jesuit Archbishop of Buenos Aires is a prominent figure throughout the continent, yet remains a simple pastor who is deeply loved by his diocese, throughout which he has travelled extensively on the underground and by bus during the 15 years of his episcopal ministry.

“My people are poor and I am one of them”, he has said more than once, explaining his decision to live in an apartment and cook his own supper. He has always advised his priests to show mercy and apostolic courage and to keep their doors open to everyone. The worst thing that could happen to the Church, he has said on various occasions, “is what de Lubac called spiritual worldliness”, which means, “being self-centred”. And when he speaks of social justice, he calls people first of all to pick up the Catechism, to rediscover the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. His project is simple: if you follow Christ, you understand that “trampling upon a person’s dignity is a serious sin”.

Despite his reserved character — his official biography consists of only a few lines, at least until his appointment as Archbishop of Buenos Aires — he became a refer

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Profile: Pope Francis

He was accused of effectively delivering two fellow priests into the hands of the military authorities in 1976 by declining to publicly endorse their social work in the slums of Buenos Aires, which infuriated the junta at the time, the BBC's Vladimir Hernández reported.

Another accusation levelled against him from the "Dirty War" era is that he failed to follow up a request to help find the baby of a woman kidnapped when five months' pregnant and killed in 1977. It is believed the baby was illegally adopted.

The Vatican strenuously denies Pope Francis was guilty of any wrongdoing under the Junta.

It emerged that in 2011 he took initial steps towards beatifying Argentine priests murdered under military rule. In a separate case, he also put forward for sainthood five Catholic churchmen who were killed at the St Patrick church in Buenos Aires, also in 1976.

And at the Pope's request, the Vatican opened up its files on the Argentine dictatorship, to victims and their relatives.

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, who was jailed and tortured by the regime, told BBC News: "There were some bishops who were in collusion with the military, but Bergoglio is not one of them."

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