According to, This devotion has since spread to Brazil; it "attracts people with small problems. [6][41] In 1973, shortly after being named provincial superior, He had made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem but his stay was shortened by the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. We must be brothers.”. [80] Francis is the first Jesuit pope. [296] 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. [135] 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. Pope Francis is played by Jonathan Pryce in the biographical drama film The Two Popes (2019) along with Anthony Hopkins who plays Pope Benedict XVI. [150] The Habemus papam announcement was delivered by the cardinal protodeacon, Jean-Louis Tauran. This joint statement is concerned with how different faiths can live peaceably in the same world and areas.

He took public transportation and cooked his own meals. [217] As a follow-up to that summit, on 9 May 2019 Francis promulgated the motu proprio Vos estis lux mundi which specified responsibilities, including reporting directly to the Holy See on bishops and on one's superior, while simultaneously involving another bishop in the archdiocese of the accused bishop. [162][163] Bergoglio had previously expressed his admiration for St. Francis, explaining that "He brought to Christianity an idea of poverty against the luxury, pride, vanity of the civil and ecclesiastical powers of the time.

Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the authorities that he endorsed their work. ", "Does Pope Francis have a MA in chemistry? [291] Some have explained the level of disagreement as due to his going beyond theoretical principles to pastoral discernment. [155] He also wore the same iron pectoral cross that he had worn as archbishop of Buenos Aires, rather than the gold one worn by his predecessors.

[214], A further Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et exsultate (Rejoice and be glad), was published on 19 March 2018, dealing with "the call to holiness in today's world" for all persons. [94] Her complaint did not specify how Bergoglio was involved; Bergoglio's spokesman flatly denied the allegations.

[96] Jalics initially refused to discuss the complaint after moving into seclusion in a German monastery. [32] 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. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? ", "Bergoglio: la verdadera historia del Papa Francisco y la dictadura de Videla", "The fake viral photo of pope Francis: who is the priest that gives the communion to Videla", "El mensaje de la Iglesia era para Kirchner", "Suspendió la Iglesia el tedeum en la Capital", "Jorge Bergoglio y los Kirchner: años de una relación tensa", "Cristina Fernández de Kirchner turns Pope Francis from foe to friend", "Pope's diplomacy put to test as leaders flock to Rome", "Making nice? [367] In December 2016, Francis yet made Forbes's list of "The World's Most Powerful People", ranking fifth. [205] There is uncertainty how far reforms can succeed.
[393], 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. [357][358] In the news media, both faithful and non-believers often refer to a "honeymoon" phase in which the Pope has changed the tone on Catholic doctrines and supposedly initiated ecclesiastical reform in the Vatican. [310] Capuchin Father Thomas Weinandy, ex-doctrine chief of US Bishops, wrote a letter to Pope Francis on 31 July 2017, which he subsequently made public, in which he charged that Pope Francis is fostering "chronic confusion", "demeaning" the importance of doctrine, appointing bishops who "scandalize" believers with dubious "teaching and pastoral practice", giving prelates who object the impression they will be "marginalized or worse" if they speak out, and causing faithful Catholics to "lose confidence in their supreme shepherd". Each of the five were under the age of eighty, and were thus eligible to vote in a papal conclave. [6][60] One of Bergoglio's major initiatives as archbishop was to increase the Church's presence in the slums of Buenos Aires. [312][313] Catholic theologian Chad Pecknold wrote that this sentence was "puzzling, and potentially problematic".

[247], At the first consistory of his papacy, held on 22 February 2014, Francis created 19 new cardinals. Kirchner intended to use that project to start similar amendments at other provinces, and eventually to the national constitution. This consistory was noteworthy for the fact that, with the pope continuing the trend of elevating cardinals from a diverse range of areas, no cardinals elevated are of the Roman Curia, and one was a mere auxiliary bishop. In the National Catholic Reporter, John L. Allen, Jr. reported that Bergoglio was a frontrunner in the 2005 conclave. [33] Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said that Bergoglio understands the liturgy, rites, and spirituality of Shevchuk's Greek Catholic Church and always "took care of our Church in Argentina" as ordinary for Eastern Catholics during his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires. [37][38], In 1960, Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Máximo de San José in San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province.

He attended the technical secondary school Escuela Técnica Industrial N° 27 Hipólito Yrigoyen,[22] named after a past President of Argentina, and graduated with a Chemical Technician's Diploma[6][23][24] (not a master's degree in Chemistry, as some media outlets incorrectly reported). A Vatican spokesman said that the name would become Francis I if and when there is a Francis II. Pope Francis has chided couples who choose not to have children, saying the decision is a “selfish” act.

Francis continued his previous practice of elevating cardinals from the peripheries with an emphasis again on Asia and Africa, such as Patrick D'Rozario from Bangladesh and Dieudonné Nzapalainga from the Central African Republic, while also naming the first three American cardinals of his papacy and only one Curial appointment. [329], In 2017, Dutch politician Lilianne Ploumen was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. [219][220], On 4 October 2020 on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis published the encyclical Fratelli tutti on fraternity and social friendship, using St. Francis' own words to describe our universal brotherhood and sisterhood.[221].
[277], Francis has highly extolled "popular movements", which demonstrate the "strength of us", serve as a remedy to the "culture of the self", and are based on solidarity with the poor and the common good. He added: “The church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.”. Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken out on making the Catholic Church more welcoming, and in 2013, said sexual orientation was all but irrelevant when it came to being a good Catholic. [271], 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. He said that "the international community has drawn up the necessary legal instruments, such as the Paris Agreement, from which however some are withdrawing.

[304], Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, maintained that Amoris Laetitia should only be interpreted in line with previous doctrine. “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?” he said, according to the BBC. Holy Father is among the other honorifics used for popes. Pope Francis has not publicly replied. "[333] The pope, along with the Government of Canada, was a behind-the-scenes broker of the agreement, taking the role following President Obama's request during his visit to the pope in March 2014. [123][124] Página/12 removed their controversial articles about Bergoglio, written by Horacio Verbitsky, from their web page, as a result of this change. [334] The success of the negotiations was credited to Francis because "as a religious leader with the confidence of both sides, he was able to convince the Obama and Castro administrations that the other side would live up to the deal".

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[314] On 8 February 2019 Bishop Athanasius Schneider released a document entitled "The Gift of Filial Adoption, the Christian Faith: the only valid and the only God-willed religion". During his 15 years as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis never sought the title for any of his priests.

[143] According to the Vatican, the pope "at least for now, feels at ease using Italian, the everyday language of the Holy See". Nobody mentioned him as instigator or as anything. [196], The Catholic Church in England and Wales as of April 2014[update] had refused to publish results of this survey; a Church spokesman said a senior Vatican official had expressly asked for summaries to remain confidential, and that orders had come from the Pope that the information should not be made public until after October. If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?

[390][391][392], By 2015, there were two biographical films about Pope Francis: Call Me Francesco (Italy, 2015), starring Rodrigo de la Serna, and Francis: Pray for me (Argentina, 2015), starring Darío Grandinetti.