Frances is first Pope from the Americas
VATICAN CITY – 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.
Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernised Argentina’s conservative Catholic Church.
Known until yesterday as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed. He came close to becoming Pope last time, reportedly gaining the second-highest vote total in several rounds of voting before he bowed out of the running in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.
Groups of supporters waved Argentine flags in St Peter’s Square as Francis, wearing simple white robes, made his first public appearance as Pope.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening," he said before making a reference to his roots in Latin America, which accounts for about 40 per cent of the world’s Roman Catholics.
Bergoglio often rode a bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina’s capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.
He accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
Swazi Catholics welcome Pope Francis
MBABANE - The Swazi Roman Catholic Church has welcomed the new Pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, with great joy.
Secretary of the Roman Catholic Church, Sakhile Ndwandwe, said the church was ecstatic with the announcement of the new Pope, who said he would assume the name Francis I.
"We are happy that a new Pope has been unveiled. We pray that God gives him the strength and courage to lead the church with wisdom. We also pray that God blesses him with a healthy life as he takes over from the resigned Pope," Ndwandwe said.
Pope Francis, 76, appeared on the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica just over an hour after white smoke emerged from a chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel to signal he had been chosen to lead the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
The choice of Bergoglio was announced by French Cardinal, Jean-Louis Tauran, with the Latin words "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam" ("I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope")
Francis becomes the 266th Pontiff in the church’s 2 000-year history at a time of great crisis and difficulty. Although a conservative, he is seen as a reformer and was not among the small group of front-runners identified before the election.
He also went against one of the main assumptions before the election, that the new Pope would be relatively young.
He is the oldest of most of the possible candidates and was barely mentioned in feverish speculation about the top contenders before the conclave.
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