Bergoglio in a sentence

The differences between the humorless Benedict and the outgoing Bergoglio are summed up perfectly as Benedict enters the room and, hearing Bergoglio humming, asks what hymn it is.

In the movie, Bergoglio is not interested in becoming pope despite the urging of Italian Cardinal Carlo Martini, who, like Ratzinger and Bergoglio, also got several votes on the first ballot.

Father Pepe is a member of the movement of “villero” priests, so called because of their work focused on villas miserias (slums) that had strong backing from Jorge Bergoglio when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires before he was made pope on March 13, 2013.

And by doing so, Bergoglio would have the pretext of accusing these prelates of being “enemies of the Pope,” of placing themselves outside the Church, of wanting a schism.

Upon his appointment to his current see, Olivero showed us that Bergoglio’s own little performance on the Loggia – bowing to the crowd and asking for their prayers – is a popular schtick among this crowd.

Based on a stage play by screenwriter Anthony McCarten (), the film takes place mostly over the few days in 2012 when Bergoglio came from his native Argentina to Rome.

Bergoglio was a familiar figure in another giant Buenos Aires shanty town, Villa 21-24, to which, as the city’s archbishop, he travelled by bus and on foot to say mass once a week.

I got my first offer to play the Pope on the day that it was announced that Bergoglio was going to be Pope.

In a contentious conclave that required four rounds of voting, the assembled cardinals selected the Bavarian Joseph Ratzinger, despite an unexpectedly strong showing for reformer Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina.

Indeed, Bergoglio’s famed humility is treated frequently as a punchline.

The ballot results are those leaked by an anonymous cardinal to the press: According to the leak, Ratzinger got 84 votes and Bergoglio got 26 in the final tally.

There are long black-and-white flashbacks showing Bergoglio’s early life and his anguish at having compromised with Argentina’s brutal 70s junta regime when he should arguably have been defiant to the point of martyrdom.

And Claire Giangravè profiles the Pope’s artist cousin, Cristina Bergoglio.

Bergoglio has brought this on the Church.

For instance, former president Cristina Kirchner, who once dubbed then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the leader of the opposition, met with Francis seven times.

It bore the Pope's name at birth, Jorge Bergoglio, and the flag of his native country, Argentina.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio as his successor on March 13.

Looking to the future, Ivereigh and Douthat offered mixed predictions of how history will judge Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who daringly took the name “Francis” with a pledge to reform the Church.

So it turned to Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and you can easily see why it did in Wim Wenders’ documentary profile of him.

The election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Pope Francis in March 2013 has not changed the “Casarolian” cast of mind dominating Vatican diplomacy; quite the opposite, in fact.