While the timing of the closure may have anticipated a visit by Francis to the U.S. in September 2015, it was noted that the sisters' emphasis is close to that of Francis. [85][87] According to the Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli, this number of votes had no precedent for a Latin American papabile. [147], Bergoglio was elected pope on 13 March 2013,[7][148][149] the second day of the 2013 papal conclave, taking the papal name Francis. [387][e], On 19 March 2016, Francis became the first pope to create an Instagram account. In 2013, news magazine the TIME named Pope Francis the Person of the Year, a prestigious title was given to the one who “has done the most to influence the events of the year”. Nonetheless, she suspected the survey might be influential. [228][229] The pope canonized Joseph Vaz on his visit to Sri Lanka on 14 January 2015 and canonized a further four saints on the following 17 May; he canonized Junípero Serra on 23 September while visiting the United States and then canonized four saints on 18 October including the first married couple to be named as saints. [412] It includes extensive sections of interviews as well as stock footage from archives. [122] Bergoglio's relations with Kirchner's widow and successor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, have been similarly tense. [98] However, two days after the election of Francis, Jalics issued a statement confirming the kidnapping and attributing the cause to a former lay colleague who became a guerrilla, was captured, then named Yorio and Jalics when interrogated. "Why the first Jesuit pope is a big deal". was released on 27 November 2015 by the label Believe Digital and contains speeches by Francis and accompanying music, including rock music. The Vatican's secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, raised the issue of climate change and encouraged Trump to remain in the Paris Agreement. This joint statement is concerned with how different faiths can live peaceably in the same world and areas. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina. A number of them had offspring. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's provincial superior of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Both Pope Francis and the former Pope Benedict have received their first rounds of the coronavirus vaccine. Grassi has been restricted from exercising any public ministry but has not been laicized. [183], In 2013, Francis initially reaffirmed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's program to reform the U.S. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III in 741. Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) (Latin: Franciscus, Italian: Francesco, Spanish: Francisco; born on 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current pope of the Roman Catholic Church.He was elected on 13 March 2013. This is a list of sexually active popes, Catholic priests who were not celibate before they became pope, and popes who were legally married. News. [145], Francis chose not to live in the official papal residence in the Apostolic Palace, but to remain in the Vatican guest house, in a suite in which he can receive visitors and hold meetings. Regina Sívori[11] was a housewife born in Buenos Aires to a family of northern Italian (Piedmontese-Genoese) origin. It has also been used by the newspaper Página/12. [249], Benedict XVI also attended the second consistory on 14 February 2015, at which Francis elevated 20 new cardinals, with 15 under the age of eighty and five over the age of eighty. [43] Still, as he had no coadjutor archbishop, he stayed in office, waiting for an eventual replacement appointed by the Vatican. [136] Also in March, Pablo Buera, the mayor of La Plata, Argentina, announced that the city had renamed a section of a street leading up to a local cathedral Papa Francisco. [322], The Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together is a joint statement signed by Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, on 4 February 2019 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. "Cardinal Spills Secrets from Conclave". [69] In 2007, just two days after Benedict XVI issued new rules for using the liturgical forms that preceded the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Bergoglio established a fixed place for a weekly Mass in this extraordinary form of the Roman Rite. [277], From his first major letter Evangelii gaudium (Joy to the World), Francis called for "a missionary and pastoral conversion" whereby the laity would fully share in the missionary task of the church. [253] The pope continued the practice of naming the Vicar of Rome and a curial prefect as cardinals, while naming his substitute for the Secretariat of State in anticipation of his transferral to a curial department. The pope also continued his practice of bestowing the red hat on those from peripheries such as Madagascar, Pakistan, and Iraq, and like in 2016, created a priest as a cardinal. [414][415], Francis is played by Jonathan Pryce in the biographical drama film The Two Popes (2019) along with Anthony Hopkins who plays Pope Benedict XVI. Under his leadership, the number of priests assigned to work in the slums doubled. While visiting in St. Peter's square on New Year's Eve, Pope Francis got annoyed at a woman who grabbed his hand and wouldn't let go. [52][53], Bergoglio was asked in 1992 by Jesuit authorities not to reside in Jesuit houses, because of continued tensions with Jesuit leaders and scholars, a sense of Bergoglio's "dissent," views of his Catholic orthodoxy and his opposition to theology of liberation, and his work as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires. [237][238] Francis recognized seven saints on 14 October 2018, chief among them, his predecessor Pope Paul VI and Óscar Romero. He appointed Bishop Marcello Semeraro secretary for the group and scheduled its first meeting for 1–3 October. Pope Francis greets wife and daughter of President of Paraguay Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara on November 9, 2017 in Vatican City, Vatican. [284], Cardinal Walter Kasper has called mercy "the key word of his pontificate. Moreover, although Francis was not born in Europe, he is ethnically European. He took public transportation and cooked his own meals. Pope Francis welcomed the vice president, ... Mr. Pence presented his wife, daughter-in-law and other members of his delegation to the pope. In that role, Bergoglio created new parishes and restructured the archdiocese administrative offices, led pro-life initiatives, and created a commission on divorces. Pope Francis celebrates a Vigil Mass on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, which is observed as the World Day of Consecrated Life. [303], Francis has admitted that the Church "arrived late" in dealing with sexual abuse cases. [173] He also abolished the €25,000 annual bonus paid to the cardinals serving on the Board of Supervisors for the Vatican bank. [19][20] His niece, Cristina Bergoglio, is a painter based in Madrid, Spain. This disappointed many reformers who hoped the laity would be more involved in decision-making. [33] Bergoglio has said that, as a young seminarian, he had a crush on a girl he met and briefly doubted about continuing the religious career. [363] At the 2017 World Food Day ceremony, Francis reiterated that "we see the consequences [of climate change] every day" and that we "know how the problems are to be faced ... [t]hanks to scientific knowledge." In international diplomacy, he helped to temporarily restore full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba and supported the cause of refugees during the European and Central American migrant crises. ...[It] cannot be by any way considered an endorsement to the pro-abortion and birth control politics advocated by Mrs. The photo was taken at the church "Pequeña Obra de la Divina Providencia Don Orione" in 1990, not during the Dirty War, and after Videla's presidential pardon. [116], The Justicialist Party won the 2001 elections and got the majority in the Congress, and appointed Ramón Puerta as president of the Senate. Nobody mentioned him as instigator or as anything. [332] In September 2020, Pompeo urged Francis to stand against China's human rights violations. [344], In 2017, Dutch politician Lilianne Ploumen was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. [314] The exhortation has been implemented in different ways by various bishops around the world. Claim: On Jan. 10, 2021, Italian police arrested and detained Pope Francis, on charges including possession of child pornography and human trafficking. [71], On 8 November 2005, Bergoglio was elected president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference for a three-year term (2005–08). [379][380] Fortune magazine also ranked Francis as number one in their list of 50 greatest leaders. I am not joking. [297][298][299][300][301] One commentator has described the conservative resistance against Francis as "unique in its visibility" in recent Church history. Agencia Informativa Católica Argentina (1999–2012). Francis became the first pope to hold a papal Mass on the Arabian Peninsula, with more than 120,000 attendees in the Zayed Sports City Stadium. [255] Most of the new cardinals come from the peripheries of the church and developing countries. Antonio Primaldo and his 812 companions who had been executed by the Ottomans in 1480,[223] as well as the religious sisters Laura of St. Catherine of Siena and María Guadalupe García Zavala – in this first canonization he surpassed the record of Pope John Paul II in canonizing the most saints in a pontificate. [381] On 5 November 2014, he was ranked by Forbes as the fourth most powerful person in the world and was the only non-political figure in the top ranking. Holy Father is among the other honorifics used for popes. Abbas' visit was on the occasion of the canonization of two Palestinian nuns. [323][324] Catholic theologian Chad Pecknold wrote that this sentence was "puzzling, and potentially problematic". [242][243][244] The pope has approved beatifications for a range of men and women including the likes of Álvaro del Portillo of Opus Dei (27 September 2014), the martyred archbishop Óscar Romero (23 May 2015) and several large groups of Spanish martyrs. They're children of God and have a right to a family. He passed by a church to go to confession, and was inspired by the priest. [195], Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University wrote of the survey Francis initiated, "it's not a survey in any sense that a social scientist would recognize." [178] Louis Raphael I, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch, asked the pope to visit the "embattled Christian community" in Iraq. [410], Pope Francis: A Man of His Word is a documentary film with Swiss-Italian-French-German co-production, co-written and directed by Wim Wenders. [49][c] As a student at the Salesian school, Bergoglio was mentored by Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest Stefan Czmil. [7][150] Francis was elected on the fifth ballot of the conclave. 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Early life and career. [2][3][4][5] Francis is an outspoken critic of unbridled capitalism and free market economics, consumerism, and overdevelopment,[6] and advocates taking action on climate change, a focus of his papacy with the promulgation of Laudato si'. [115] Argentina faced an economic depression at the time, and the Church criticized the fiscal austerity of the government, which increased poverty. He urged peace during his time in the religiously diverse city, known as the "Jerusalem of Europe". [33], Bergoglio found his vocation to the priesthood while he was on his way to celebrate the Spring Day. Of that total number at the time of their elevation, 13 were under the age of eighty and four were over the age of eighty. Bergoglio asked for an interview with Puerta, and had a positive impression of him. He called not for "a new set of general rules, canonical in nature and applicable to all cases," but "a responsible personal and pastoral discernment of particular cases." [367], Francis made the plight of refugees and migrants "a core component of his pastoral work", and has defended their rights in dialogue both with Europe and with the United States. That way they are legally covered. He is the 266th and today’s pope of the Catholic Church. He counters contemporary versions of the gnostic and Pelagian heresies and describes how Jesus' beatitudes call people to "go against the flow". [74] When he turned 75 in December 2011, Bergoglio submitted his resignation as archbishop of Buenos Aires to Pope Benedict XVI as required by canon law. [120] In 2006, Bergoglio helped the fellow Jesuit Joaquín Piña to win the elections in the Misiones Province and prevent an amendment of the local constitution that would allow indefinite re-elections. [34] He chose as his episcopal motto Miserando atque eligendo. [258] Three of his appointees were only priests upon their nomination, therefore, two (Gambetti and Feroci) received their episcopal consecration, while one (Cantalamessa) was granted a papal dispensation from it. [7] He celebrated Mass in the presence of various political and religious leaders from around the world. The Argentine pontiff, 84, has previously spoken of the importance of the jab in the fight against Covid-19, which has severely curtailed his … pp. De la Rúa asked the Church to promote a dialogue between the leaders of economic and political sectors to find a solution for the crisis. The survey found that members of the Catholic Church are deeply divided over abortion, artificial contraception, divorce, the ordination of women, and married priests. He defended Podestá's wife from Vatican attacks on their marriage. [41], Bergoglio completed his final stage of spiritual training as a Jesuit, tertianship, at Alcalá de Henares, Spain, and took final, solemn vows as a Jesuit, including the fourth vow of obedience to missioning by the pope, on 22 April 1973. Pope says it's because he's tone-deaf", "Pope Francis to live in Vatican guesthouse, not papal apartments", "Pope Francis opts for Vatican guesthouse instead of spacious papal apartment", "Habemus Papam! [247], At the first consistory of his papacy, held on 22 February 2014, Francis created 19 new cardinals. Moneyval feels more reform is needed, and Francis may be willing to close the bank if the reforms prove too difficult. [218], On 30 September 2020, he published the apostolic letter Scripturae sacrae affectus to celebrate the 16th centenary of the death of Jerome. [280] He strongly opposed clericalism[281] and made women full members of the Church's dicasteries in Rome. He simplified the process for declaring matrimonial nullity. DID YOU KNOW? Ordinary of the Ordinariate for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites in Argentina, full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, Facultades de Filosofía y Teología de San Miguel, Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Theology of Pope Francis § Vatican II revisited, Theology of Pope Francis § Church leadership, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, reform the U.S. [391] The Pontiff also used his op-ed to strongly critique those protesting COVID-19 restrictions.[392]. [227] Francis canonized his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II on 27 April 2014 and canonized six additional saints the following 23 November. He claims that he talked with Bergoglio and proposed to take part in the meeting, but Bergoglio would have told him that the meeting was canceled because of a misunderstanding by De la Rúa's assistant, who may have declined the president's assistance. [113] The photo was soon proved to be false. And suggested that same-sex marriage:[290], He stated that he supports legally recognising same-sex civil unions in a statement from an interview published in October 2020;[2][3][4] this passage was from an interview from 2019, but this passage had been cut from public releases at the time. [384] A proposal to create a commemorative coin as a tribute to Francis was made in Argentina's lower house on 28 November 2013. NAME – Pope Francis BIRTHDATE – December 17, 1936 (age 85) Age – 85 Years DID YOU KNOW? "[110] Ricardo Lorenzetti, President of the Argentine Supreme Court, also has said that Bergoglio is "completely innocent" of the accusations. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1958. [123] On the day before his inauguration as pope, Bergoglio, now Francis, had a private meeting with Kirchner. [270][271], On 27 March, Francis gave an extraordinary benediction Urbi et Orbi. [75], At the consistory of 21 February 2001, Archbishop Bergoglio was created a cardinal by Pope John Paul II with the title of cardinal priest of San Roberto Bellarmino, a church served by Jesuits and named for one; he was formally installed in that church the following 14 October. [279], Francis called for decentralization of governance away from Rome, and for a synodal manner of decision making in dialogue with the people. [353] Protests against his visit resulted in an alleged arson attempt at the Dormition Abbey. The director of the Vatican press office, Matteo Bruni, in … Many media reported him as being the first non-European pope, but he is actually the 11th; the previous was Gregory III from Syria, who died in 741. On the coins it would read, "Tribute from the Argentine People to Pope Francis." On the day of his election, the Vatican clarified that his official papal name was "Francis", not "Francis I", i.e. He went on to place a statue in St. Peter's Square to bring attention to the Christian imperative involved in their situation (Hebrews 13:2). Kirchner intended to use that project to start similar amendments at other provinces, and eventually to the national constitution. [254], On 1 September 2019, following his weekly Sunday Angelus address, Francis unexpectedly announced the appointment of 13 new cardinals. [316][317] Francis subsequently announced that dicastery prefects would be appointed for a single five-year term, and replaced Müller at the end of his term in 2017 with Luis Ladaria Ferrer. "The plan comes amid a breakthrough for which Francis has received much credit. When Francis was archbishop of Buenos Aires, he authored a text entitled "Dialogues Between John Paul II and Fidel Castro". Bishop Jorge Casaretto considers it unlikely, as De la Rúa only made the request in newspaper interviews, but never made a formal request to the Church. In the National Catholic Reporter, John L. Allen Jr. reported that Bergoglio was a frontrunner in the 2005 conclave. [107] Oliveira met with him at the time and urged Bergoglio to speak out—he told her that "he couldn't. 45–46, Austen Ivereigh, The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope, Henry Holt 2014, Paul Vallely, Pope Francis: Untying the Knots, Bloomsbury, 2013, Sergio Rubin, "Regresó la misa en latín, con mujeres cubiertas por mantillas.". [92], Bergoglio was the subject of allegations regarding the Navy's kidnapping of two Jesuit priests, Orlando Yorio and Franz Jalics, in May 1976, during Argentina's Dirty War. [179], On the first Holy Thursday following his election, Francis washed and kissed the feet of ten male and two female juvenile offenders, not all Catholic, aged from 14 to 21, imprisoned at Rome's Casal del Marmo detention facility, telling them the ritual of foot washing is a sign that he is at their service. [104] Since Francis became pope, Gonzalo Mosca[105] and José Caravias[106] have related to journalists accounts of how Bergoglio helped them flee the Argentine dictatorship. His 2015 trip to Cuba is a prime example. [65][66][67] That same year, Bergoglio said the Argentine Catholic Church needed "to put on garments of public penance for the sins committed during the years of the dictatorship" in the 1970s, during the Dirty War. [234][235][236] The pope canonized the two child visionaries Francisco and Jacinta Marto during his visit to Fátima in mid-2017 and canonized 35 additional saints on 15 October. [326] After Francis's visit to Cuba in 2015, Catholic Yale historian Carlos Eire spoke of a "preferential option for the oppressors" in Latin America. He broke records after having gained over one million followers in under twelve hours of the account being up. He reportedly told her, “If I don’t marry you, I’m going to be a priest.” Even in this case, the Pontiff kept his word. [7][40], In 1967 Bergoglio began his theological studies at Facultades de Filosofía y Teología de San Miguel and on 13 December 1969 was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Ramón José Castellano. After the meeting in Vatican City on 10 May 2015, Castro said that he was considering returning to the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is the 266th Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City. ", Sergio Rubin; Francesca Ambrogetti, Pope Francis – Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio. Jim Yardley & Laurie Goodstein (18 June 2015). "[350] The Cuba visit "seals that accomplishment, in which he served as a bridge between two erstwhile enemies". While these instituted ministries were previously reserved to men, Catholic women already carry out these duties without institution in most of the world. We have no information regarding the Pope’s personal life which has been the major curiosity among the public. [139][168] In February 2014, it was reported that Bergoglio, had he been elected in 2005, would have chosen the pontifical name of "John XXIV" in honor of Pope John XXIII. ", "Does Pope Francis have a master's degree in chemistry? Pope Francis came out strong against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. [161][166] It is the first time since Pope Lando's 913–914 reign that a serving pope holds a name not used by a predecessor. Some other Catholic churches, for example in Germany and Austria, published summaries of the responses to the survey, which showed a wide gap between Church teaching and the behavior of ordinary Catholics. He said: "While we venerate the martyrs of Otranto, ask God to support the many Christians who still suffer from violence and give them the courage and fate and respond to evil with goodness. [371] The Vatican has claimed that Western news outlets often seek to portray his message with a less-doctrinal tone of papacy, in hopes of extrapolating his words to convey a more merciful and tolerant message. [265] He encouraged priests to visit patients and health workers;[266] urged the faithful not to forget the poor during the time of crisis;[267] offered prayers for victims of the virus in China;[268] and invoked the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title Salus Populi Romani, as the Diocese of Rome observed a period of prayer and fasting in recognition of the victims. Mario José’s family left Italy in 1929, to escape the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini. [307] In 2018, Francis acknowledged he had made "grave errors" in judgment about Barros, apologized to the victims and launched a Vatican investigation that resulted in the resignation of Barros and two other Chilean bishops. He is also the first from the Americas,[134] and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, according to Cardinal Müller, divorced and civilly remarried can have access to the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist only if they take on the duty of living in complete continence. [251], The pope presided over a fourth consistory for the elevation of five new cardinals on the afternoon of 28 June 2017. [333], In November 2020, Francis named China's Uyghur minority among a list of the world's persecuted peoples. [158] In his homily Francis focused on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, the liturgical day on which the Mass was celebrated. [187], On 12 May, Francis carried out his first canonizations of candidates approved for sainthood during the reign of Benedict XVI: the first Colombian saint, Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena, the second female Mexican saint, María Guadalupe García Zavala, both of the 20th century, and the 813 15th-century Martyrs of Otranto. 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