In his first Mass as pontiff, Pope Francis has displayed his informal style as a pastor. He delivered an off-the-cuff homily in the Sistine Chapel today about the need to walk with God, build up his church and confess. He referred at one point to …
“Great rejoicing.” -- It’s what Archbishop William E. Lori says he thinks of when he reflects on the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aries.
Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.
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