266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
The first pope from outside Europe in nearly 1,300 years, he reshaped the Vatican's tone on poverty, climate, and LGBTQ inclusion — then died on Easter Monday 2025, twelve years into a papacy that unsettled as much as it opened.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1936 to an Italian family, Jorge Mario Bergoglio joined the Jesuits in 1958 after a brush with serious illness and rose to lead the order's Argentine province through the 1970s. He became archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, cardinal in 2001, and on 13 March 2013 — after Benedict XVI resigned — emerged from conclave as the first Jesuit and first Latin American pope, taking the name Francis after the saint of Assisi. He moved into a Vatican guesthouse instead of the papal apartments, wore simple vestments, kept his iron cross, and steered the Church toward the margins: he…
Sourced, dated quotes from Pope Francis
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.
[[File: Cristo Redentor - Rio.jpg|thumb|right|The Son of God became incarnate to infuse into the human soul the feeling of brotherhood.
[[File: Thanksgiving chapel interior.jpg|thumb|right|Mystics have been fundamental to the church.
You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith.
The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart: do good and do not do evil.
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