On March 13,
2013, in Rome, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, was elected pope. Chosen by the cardinals
of the Roman Catholic Church to be the 266th
successor of the apostle Peter, he is 76 years old, the
first Latin American pope and the first pope from the Jesuit
order.
Now that the
white smoke has cleared and the jubilation in St. Peters
Square has settled, Catholics, Christians, and people
everywhere are asking, who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and what
will his pontificate mean for the Catholic Church.