Jose mario bergoglio biography for kids
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Meet Pope Francis (for kids and their parents)
Parents: I have written a short biography of Pope Francis for children. Scroll down to find definitions of vocabulary words, links, downloads, and other teaching ideas. Update: Bergoglio was made a cardinal three years after becoming archbishop, not 13.
“Habemus Papam!” the protodeacon announced to the waiting crowd in St. Peter’s Square on March 13, 2013. “We have a pope! The most eminent and most reverend Lord, Lord Jorge Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Bergoglio, Who takes for himself the name of Francis.”
The people cheered when they heard the new pope would be Pope Francis. But they also asked themselves, Who isCardinal Bergoglio? Where is he from? What kind of pope will he be?
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on December 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His name is George Marion in English. He had two brothers–Oscar Adrian and Alberto Horacio–and two sisters–Marta Regina and Maria Elena. Only Maria is still living. She is 11 years younger than Jorge. She cried when she learned her brother had been elected pope.
Mr. and Mrs. Bergoglio immigrated from Turin, Italy to South America in the 1920’s. Jorge’s father was a railway worker. His mother
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) (Latin: Franciscus, Italian: Francesco, Spanish: Francisco; born on 17 December 1936) is the 266th[2][3] and current pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He was elected on 13 March 2013. He chose the name Francis to honor St. Francis of Assisi.[4][5][6][7]
Francis is the first Jesuit pope.[6] He is also the first pope in more than a millennium who is not European.[8] He is the first pope ever to come from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.[9]
From 1998 until he was elected as the pope, Francis was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Throughout his life, both as an individual and a religious leader, he has been known for his humility, his concern for the poor, and his commitment to dialogue as a way to build bridges between people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths.[10][11][12] He has expressed concern about the effects of global warming (climate change).[13][14] In his 2015 encyclicalLaudato si' , he wrote about these issues, and others.
Since his election to the papacy, he has shown a simpler and less formal approach to the office, choosing to liv
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