By Claudia Rebaza (CNN) — On March 13, 2013, Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican: a new pope was ...

Pope Francis's early life Decades later, the world would come to know him simply as Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. But his journey to the Vatican was anything but ordinary.

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Pope Francis died Monday, leaving behind a legacy as "Pope of the People" and a change agent within the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh's The Great Reformer was published just a year into Pope ...

On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis launches holy Jubilee year According to his official Vatican biography, he was ordained as a Jesuit in 1969 and went on to study in Argentina and Germany.

A worshiper waves the flag of Argentina as Pope Francis arrives for the weekly general audience on June 5, 2019, at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. - Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images ...

How Pope Francis’ early life in Argentina shines light on his time in the Vatican. By CNN Newsource. Published April 22, 2025 3:49 pm . By Claudia Rebaza (CNN) — On March 13, 2013 ...

By Claudia Rebaza (CNN) — On March 13, 2013, Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican: a new pope was ...