liberation theology and
released from ESMA
Yorio, Oswaldo
Yorio, Rodolfo
Zaccaeus
Zamora, Luis
Zazpe, Archbishop Vicente
Zimerman, Alberto
Zorzín, Father Victor
Jorge’s grandparents Giovanni Bergoglio and Rosa Margarita Vasallo with their eldest son, Jorge’s father, Mario.
Jorge’s parents, Mario and Regina, on their wedding day in 1935.
Jorge (left) and his brother Oscar in their First Communion outfits in the 1940s.
Jorge as a teenager, late 1940s.
Jorge with classmates and the Salesian priests who ran the Wilfrid Barón de los Santos Angeles primary school he attended between 1948 and 1949. Jorge is fourth from the left in the third row from the top.
Jorge on parade at the school. He is the second boy. (G. PIKO/ARGENPRESS)
The Bergoglio family in 1958. Jorge (in cassock), who that year entered seminary, with (back row, left to right) his brothers and sisters Alberto, Oscar, and Marta and (seated) María Elena, with their parents, Regina and Mario.
Argentine Jesuits studying at the Casa Loyola, outside the Chilean capital, Santiago, in 1960. Almost all would leave before finishing their formation. Bergoglio is in the back row, fifth from the right. Andrés Swinnen, who would succeed him as Argentine provincial, is back row, fifth from left. Bottom row, far right, is Jorge González Manent (“Goma”), author of a memoir about their novitiate.
Bergoglio the teacher in 1964. Below: with the writer Jorge Luis Borges in 1965, when he invited him to talk to his students at the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción in Santa Fe, Argentina.
A view of the 200-bedroom Colegio Máximo in the Buenos Aires province town of San Miguel, where Jorge Bergoglio spent most of his life as a Jesuit: as a student of philosophy and theology (1966–71), as lecturer in pastoral theology and novice-master (1971–72), as provincial (1973–79), and as rector (1980–86).
María Desatanudos—“Mary, Untier of Knots”—the Argentine copy of the German picture that Bergoglio gave out on prayer cards at his ordination as bishop in 1992, sparking a popular devotion.
Pope John Paul II made Bergoglio a cardinal in February 2001 along with a large number of Latin-American diocesan archbishops.
Cardinal Bergoglio entering the Sistine Chapel for the first time in the April 2005 conclave. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, then the archbishop of Westminster, is on the left of the picture.
Cardinal Bergoglio welcomes President Néstor Kirchner and the First Lady, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to the cathedral for the traditional Te Deum on May 25, 2006, Argentina’s national day. After taking offense at the cardinal’s address, President Kirchner opted in subsequent years to celebrate the Te Deum outside Buenos Aires.
When this picture of Bergoglio being prayed over by evangelical pastors at a 2006 ecumenical gathering was published in La Nación, traditionalist Catholic groups declared he had “apostasized.” On the left of the picture, in a friar’s habit, is the papal preacher Father Raniero Cantalamessa.
The cardinal on fire: preaching at the CRECES gathering in 2006.
Cardinal Bergoglio was a regular user of the Buenos Aires subway, the subte. Line A took him from the Plaza de Mayo, where he was based, to his childhood barrio of Flores.
Bergoglio the street preacher.
Speaking after a Mass in Villa 21 in December 2010 to thank Padre Pepe Di Paola, who after fourteen years of service to the slum and surviving threats from drug traffickers, was taking time out.
“The handover.” With Pope Benedict XVI on February 28, 2013, the day his historic resignation from the papacy took effect and the Diocese of Rome was sede vacante. The pope, who made the decision to resign in Mexico in March 2012, saw Latin America as the new source for the universal Church.
A thoughtful Cardinal Bergoglio arrives for the general congregations of cardinals prior to the conclave in March 2013. His brief but powerful speech convinced many of the cardinals that the new pope had already been chosen.
In the Sistine Chapel at the conclave that elected him. To his left his friend Cardinal Claúdio Hummes, the Brazilian cardinal who told him: “Don’t forget the poor.”
Francis shocked Vatican staff by joining them in their canteen on July 25, 2014. He waited in line with the rest of the employees for his lunch of pasta, cod, and grilled tomatoes. The cashier didn’t have the courage to charge him when he appeared at the register.
At lunch in the Jesuit General Curia on the Feast of Saint Ignatius, July 31, 2014. On the left of the photo (seated) is Father Alfredo Nicolás, the Jesuit superior general, who after the election of Francis, acted swiftly to heal the wounds of the past. To the pope’s right (standing) is Father Attilio Sciortino, minister of the Curia, and to his left (seated) is Father Joaquín Barrero, superior of the Curia and regional assistant for Southern Europe.
Building bridges through bonds of trust: top, with British abuse survivor Peter Saunders in July 2014, who gave Francis a cycling cap; bottom, in Jerusalem with old friends Omar Abboud and Rabbi Abraham Skorka; below, with Bishop Tony Palmer, tragically killed in July 2014.
“If the Church is alive, it must always surprise us.” At his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, November 20, 2013.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AUSTEN IVEREIGH is a British writer, journalist, and commentator on religious and political affairs who holds a PhD from Oxford University on religion and politics in Argentina. He is well known as a Catholic commentator on British media, especially on the BBC, Sky, ITV, and Al-Jazeera. A former deputy editor of the weekly The Tablet, he was for a time spokesman and public affairs adviser to the former archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, and is the cofounder of Catholic Voices, a media project that has spread to thirteen countries. He is the author of a number of books, including How to Defend the Faith Without Raising Your Voice (Huntingdon, In.: Our Sunday Visitor, 2012). He writes regularly for a number of periodicals and lives in Oxfordshire, England, with his wife and dogs.
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