Argentine Jorge Bergoglio Elected Pope Francis
Posted on 03/13/2013 by Associated Press | General News | Comments
Bulletin TodayBy Nicole Winfield of The Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. A stunned-looking Bergoglio shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals had had to look to “the end of the earth” to find a bishop of …
