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Getting to know Francis I
« on: March 15, 2013, 09:50:44 AM »
Pope Francis: 13 key facts about the new pontiff


Pope Francis arrives at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Photograph: L'Osservatore Romano/Getty Images

What we know about Pope Francis

• He likes to travel by bus.

• He has lived for more than 50 years with one functioning lung. He had the other removed as a young man because of infection.

• He is the son of an Italian railway worker and a housewife.

• He trained as a chemist.

• He is the first non-European pope in the modern era.

• He claims that adoption by homosexuals is a form of discrimination against children but believes that condoms "can be permissible" to prevent infection.

• In 2001 he washed and kissed the feet of Aids patients in a hospice.

• He speaks fluent Italian, as well as Spanish and German.

• Until now he has been living in a small flat, eschewing a formal bishop's residence.

• He told Argentinians not to travel to Rome to celebrate if he was appointed but to give their money to the poor instead.

• He is believed to have been the runner-up in the last papal conclave in 2005.

• He has co-written a book, in Spanish, called Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra (On Heaven and Earth).

• Though conservative on church doctrine, he has criticised priests who refuse to baptise babies born to single mothers.

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Re: Getting to know Francis I
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 10:02:52 AM »

Circa 1950's Jorge Mario Bergoglio [R] with unidentified schoolmates of a preparatory school in Buenos Aires, Argentina Photograph: AP


 Jorge Mario Bergoglio, second from left in back row, poses for a picture with his family in an unknown location Photograph: AP 

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Re: Getting to know Francis I
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 10:06:02 AM »

 Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in 1973 Photograph: AP


 The late Pope John Paul II met Bergoglio at the Vatican Photograph: AP

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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 10:11:27 AM »

 Conducting the mass in honour of Pope John Paul II in Buenos Aires Photograph: Enrique Marcarian/Reuters


 Pope Benedict XVI meets Bergoglio at the Vatican on 13 January 2007 Photograph: Osservatore Romano/AFP/Getty Images

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« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 10:14:59 AM »

 He leaves the Synod Hall after the last congregation in Vatican City on March 11 Photograph: Ciro Fusco/EPA


 The Canadian cardinal Marc Ouellet, left, holds on to his umbrella next to Bergoglio as they walk in St Peter's Square after attending a cardinals' meeting at the Vatican on 6 March Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP 

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« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2013, 10:43:08 AM »

 The new pope at the window of St Peter's Basilica Photograph: AFP/AFP/Getty Images

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Re: Getting to know Francis I
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2013, 05:00:55 PM »
Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded." Leviticus 10:18

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Re: Getting to know Francis I
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2013, 07:44:15 PM »
Way hasol nga baggage ni si Pope Francis...

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