Do you have a link to your source?

Gitsnik :
here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21777494
Maybe they were just cold and lit a fire.
lol

Gitsnik : It's going on live right now. Turn on FOX news, or any other news station, and they will probably have it on. But anyways, his name is Pope Francis. He's from Argentina. He was believed to be second place in the last vote. They say that he is a "man of the people."

patar4097 :
they always say that

I watched, and I must say he didn't look to happy. Though, it was late there... It's funny, though. Pope Francis I looks like my grandfather. Oh! Also, at one point (I have to bring this up, lol.) the Pope looked like he was going to dive into the crowed. 

This is a very interesting Pope for many reasons.

1) First Pope from South America
2) First Jesuit Pope
3) First Pope to choose the name Francis
4) First Pope in ~600 years to have their predecessor still around.

Very interesting, indeed.

[qoute]"MSNBC News Special Report: The Vatican crowd cheers as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is blessed and elevated to Pope Francis I, successor to Pope Benedict XVI, on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica.


By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News


Pope Francis, the first man in the modern era from outside Europe to lead the Roman Catholic Church, prizes compassion, humility and simplicity — so much that he gave up his chauffeur in Argentina and took the bus to work.


He is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order founded in the 16th century by St. Ignatius Loyola. Its members, known as Jesuits, take a vow of poverty and are known for their work among the poor and their scholarship.


“A man who calmly stands for what’s right and just,” Cardinal Edward Egan, the archibishop emeritus of New York, told NBC News. “A man of great compassion for the poor. That is what they point to first and foremost.”


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During an economic crisis that gripped his home country over the last decade, Francis, then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio, asserted himself as a champion of the least fortunate and a defender of social justice.


“We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least,” Bergoglio told Latin American bishops in 2007, according a recent profile in the National Catholic Reporter. “The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.”


The new pope is known to be conservative on social issues. He has opposed abortion and gay marriage, and in 2010 he drew the ire of Argentina’s president when he said that gay adoption was a form of discrimination against children.


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Argentina in 2010 became the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. During the debate that preceded the change, Bergoglio called the bill “a plan to destroy God’s plan.”


“This is no mere legislative bill,” he said. “It is a move by the father of lies to confuse and deceive the children of God.”


Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner shot back that the then-cardinal was speaking in terms “really reminiscent of the times of the Inquisition.”


As archbishop, Bergoglio had the option to live in a palace but chose a simple apartment, according to the National Catholic Reporter. He gave up a limousine for the bus, and cooks his own meals.


In the first act of his papacy, he chose the name Francis, becoming the namesake of St. Francis of Assisi, who gave up his riches and chose a life of poverty and prayer.


He was born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, his father an Italian railway worker. He was elevated to cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.


At 76, he had been considered by some observers too old for the job — particularly following Benedict, who said that at 85 he was no longer healthy enough to lead the church. Francis has only one lung, the other removed because of an infection when he was a teenager.


Still, Egan said: “I can assure you that he is not feeble in any way.”


Related: Single lung not likely to hinder new pope


His official biographer has said that Francis has both keen political instincts and self-effacing humility, and that he would encourage a kind of shoe-leather evangelism within the church. He is known to walk the streets of Buenos Aires to talk to the people.


He told priests in Argentina last year: “Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the word in body as well as spirit.”


Perhaps helping him overcome the traditional reluctance to elect a Jesuit pope, he fell out of favor among some Jesuits in Argentina after he was elected to the title of Jesuit provincial in 1973.


Argentina was ruled in the late 1970s by a brutal military dictatorship, and many Jesuits were drawn to a progressive activist movement within the church known as liberation theology. Church leaders backed the dictatorship publicly, and Bergoglio discouraged priests from political activism.


Two of his Jesuit priests who followed the liberation theology movement were kidnapped from the slums by the military regime in 1976. Bergoglio personally appealed to the dictator, Jorge Videla, and had them freed. One of the priests later accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads in the first place.


ardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected to lead the Catholic Church following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

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Bergoglio told his biographer, Sergio Rubin, that he often hid people on church property during the regime years and once gave his own identity papers to a man to help him get out of the country.


He later was sent to a school in northern Argentina to teach high school chemistry, an assignment seen as a type of exile, before the archbishop of Buenos Aires recalled him to be his auxiliary bishop.


“He’s a strong man, a man who can put up with criticism,” said George Weigel, NBC News’ Vatican analyst. “Cardinal Bergoglio put up with a lot of criticism from his brother Jesuits for many years.”


Francis earned a degree in chemistry and was ordained a priest in December 1969. He was named archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998.


He was said to be the runner-up the last time cardinals met to choose a pope. An anonymous account of the 2005 conclave said that he had the support of some of the more liberal cardinals before giving up the fight and telling his backers to vote for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became Benedict XVI.


Related: New pope: 'Pray for me and I will see you soon'

The account was attributed to a cardinal who leaked his diary to an Italian publication. It said that Francis, then Bergoglio, amassed 40 votes, more than half of what he would have needed for election, but still trailed Benedict after three ballots. His candidacy faltered on the fourth ballot, the diary said.


As Bergoglio cast his ballot beneath Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment,” the account said: “He had his face fixed on the image of Christ judging the souls at the end of time. A suffering face that implored: God, don’t to this to me.” The cardinal later declined to comment on the account.


By choosing a name no pope had chosen before, he may be signaling an era of rebirth for a church troubled by corruption and a sexual abuse crisis.


“We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referential church,” the new pope said before the conclave, according to the National Catholic Reporter. “It’s true that when you get out into the street, as happens to every man and woman, there can be accidents. However, if the church remains closed in on itself, self-referential, it gets old. Between a church that suffers accidents in the street, and a church that’s sick because it's self-referential, I have no doubts about preferring the former.”

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/13/17299920-meet-the-new-pope-francis-is-humble-leader-who-takes-the-bus-to-work?lite

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It went from black to white smoke but Pope Francis is the new Pope. I hope you do well Pope.

Yeah, I came home like, 10 minutes before the new guy was revealed.

to be honest, he didn't really seem to impress me at all. He's a bit of a step up from Benedict, just for the sheer fact he's NOT Benedict, but still, not really somebody I would like to see in any sort of power, even if it's not too powerful in reality.

His views are still pretty negative, but better than going and actually endorsing something such as the "Kill the Gays" act in whatever-that-area-was land (Uganda?...).

Also, I never really understood the "Shame" in choosing the name Francis. Can someone explain that to me, Nya~?

I go to a private Catholic college, and no one seems to mind the name Francis where I'm at. The only sort of disdain I can think of is from the uber-conservatives, and even then its small. It has become Catholic tradition to name yourself after a previous pope. This guy didn't. He chose a new name. To those conservatives, he's breaking with tradition, and therefore a trouble maker.

Again, these are not the Catholics nor the fathers at my university. These are only the weirdies.

Last pope was a member of the hitlerjugend, this one collaborated with a junta dictatorship. Makes sense. But oh... he can even cook his own food...

i wonder what the next scandal gonna be and this made me laugh so hard --> http://www.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/02/33461/ the irony is stunning