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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio;[b] 17 December 1936) is the Pope and head of the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the first one from the Americas, the first one from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first one born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian Pope Gregory III.


Francis

13 March 2013

13 December 1969
by Ramón José Castellano

27 June 1992
by Antonio Quarracino

21 February 2001
by John Paul II

Jorge Mario Bergoglio

(1936-12-17) 17 December 1936
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Argentine (with Vatican citizenship)

Catholic

Miserando atque eligendo[a]

Francis's signature

Francis's coat of arms

13 December 1969

27 June 1992

21 February 2001

30 July 1999

25 March 2000

21 October 2000

28 April 2001

18 September 2001

16 December 2001

20 April 2002

16 August 2003

25 September 2004

20 May 2006

11 October 2008

18 August 2011

24 October 2013

15 November 2013

30 May 2014

9 November 2015

19 March 2016

19 March 2018

4 October 2019

4 October 2019

4 October 2019

4 October 2019

17 October 2021

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness of pneumonia and cysts, he was inspired to join the Jesuits in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. He led the Argentine Church during the December 2001 riots in Argentina. The administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner considered him to be a political rival.


Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. He chose Francis as his papal name in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi. Throughout his public life, Francis has been noted for his humility, emphasis on God's mercy, international visibility as pope, concern for the poor, and commitment to interreligious dialogue. He is credited with having a less formal approach to the papacy than his predecessors, for instance choosing to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse rather than in the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace used by previous popes.


Francis has made women full members of dicasteries in the Roman Curia.[2][3] He maintains that the Catholic Church should be more sympathetic toward members of the LGBT community and has permitted the blessings of same-sex couples, so long as the blessing does not resemble a marriage.[4] Francis is a critic of unbridled capitalism, consumerism, and overdevelopment;[5] he has made action on climate change a leading focus of his papacy.[6] Widely interpreted as denouncing the death penalty as intrinsically evil,[7] he has termed it "an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person", "inadmissible", and committed the Church to its abolition,[8] saying that there can be "no going back from this position".[9]


In international diplomacy, Francis has criticized the rise of right-wing populism, called for the decriminalization of homosexuality,[10] helped to restore full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, negotiated a deal with China to define how much influence the Communist Party has in appointing Chinese bishops, and has supported the cause of refugees during the European and Central American migrant crises, calling on the Western World to significantly increase immigration levels.[11][12] In 2022, he apologized for the Church's role in the "cultural genocide" of the Canadian indigenous peoples.[13] On 4 October 2023, Francis convened the beginnings of the Synod on Synodality, described as the culmination of his papacy and the most important event in the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council.[3][14][15]

Distinctions

Titles and styles

The official form of address of the pope in English is His Holiness Pope Francis; in Latin, Franciscus, Episcopus Romae. Holy Father is among the other honorifics used for popes.[518]

Films

Documentary film

By 2015, there were two biographical films about Francis: Call Me Francesco (Italy, 2015), starring Rodrigo de la Serna, and Francis: Pray for me (Argentina, 2015), starring Darío Grandinetti.[543]


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.[544] It premiered at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on 18 May 2018.[545] It includes extensive sections of interviews as well as stock footage from archives.[546]


On 21 October 2020, the documentary Francesco directed by film producer Evgeny Afineevsky premiered.[547][548]


On 4 October 2022, the documentary The Letter: A Message for our Earth premiered on YouTube Originals, directed by Nicolas Brown and produced by Off The Fence in partnership with Laudato Si' Movement.[549]

Portrayal in film

Francis is played by Jonathan Pryce in the biographical drama film The Two Popes (2019), costarring with Anthony Hopkins who plays Pope Benedict XVI.[550]

List of current Christian leaders

List of current heads of state and government

List of people beatified by Pope Francis

List of popes

Allen, John L. (2015). The Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church. New York: . ISBN 978-1-61893-131-3.

Time

Borghesi, Massimo (2018) [Italian original, 2017]. The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Intellectual Journey. Translated by Hudock, Barry. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press.  978-0-8146-8790-1.

ISBN

; Eugenio, Ludovica (2013). Il Dissenso Soffocato: un'agenda per Papa Francesco [Dissent Stifled: an agenda for Pope Francis]. Molfetta: La Meridiana. ISBN 978-8861533240.

Castagnaro, Mauro

(2018). The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62157-832-1.

Colonna, Marcantonio

(2018). To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-4692-3.

Douthat, Ross

Ivereigh, Austen (2014). The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope. New York: Henry Holt.  978-1-62779-157-1.

ISBN

Lawler, Philip F. (2018). Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis is Misleading His Flock. Washington DC: Regnery Gateway.  978-1-62157-722-5.

ISBN

Reato, Ceferino (2015). Doce noches [Twelve nights] (in Spanish). Argentina: Sudamericana.  978-950-07-5203-9.

ISBN

Rosales, Luis; Olivera, Daniel (2013). . United States: Umanix Books. ISBN 978-1-63006-002-2. Retrieved 6 May 2014.

Francis: A pope for our time

Rubin, Sergio; Ambrogetti, Francesca (2010). [The jesuit] (in Spanish) (1 ed.). Argentina: Vergara Editor. ISBN 978-950-15-2450-5.

El Jesuita

Vallely, Paul (2015). Pope Francis: Untying the Knots: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism (Revised and expanded ed.). London: Bloomsbury.  978-1-4729-0370-9.

ISBN

Willey, David (2015). The Promise of Francis: The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change. New York: Simon & Schuster.  978-1-4767-8905-7.

ISBN

Liedl, Jonathan (6 March 2023). . National Catholic Register. Retrieved 7 March 2023.

"Francis' Pontificate Turns 10: Outward-Facing Emphasis Has Shaken Up Church's Inner Equilibrium"

Vatican: the Holy See

Vatican Web site: Official biography of Jorge Mario Bergoglio

on Twitter (Official Twitter account)

Pope Francis

on Instagram (Official Instagram account)

Pope Francis

on YouTube (Official Vatican YouTube page, covering the pope and related interests)

Pope Francis's channel

at Curlie

Pope Francis

on C-SPAN

Appearances