ALTHOUGH much has already been said and written about how Pope Francis changed not only the way the papacy, and the Catholic Church, are seen and lived, words are not enough to express how much he had profoundly touched Christians and non-Christians alike around the world.
He brought the Good News not only as proclamation, but more so as action out in the peripheries, to the last, the least and the lost. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was archbishop of Buenos Aires in Argentina when then-pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly resigned in February 2013. His brother-cardinals then elected him as the new pope — the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American pope and the first non-European pope in more than a millennium. In his first appearance as pope at the balcony of St.
Above all, the pronunciation, because I don't have an ear for it.' In Ireland trying to learn English, he once borrowed from the community bursar 14 euros to buy language tapes for the study of English. It is also interesting to note here how he was called and addressed by people around the world speaking various languages. Filipinos fondly call him 'Lolo Kiko' since his visit to the Philippines in 2015.
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