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I'm wondering if the new Argentinian Pope will start recognizing June 22 (Maradona's "Hand of God" goal) as an official Catholic holiday.

Where's his awesome pope hat??

USA Today on Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Reportedly received the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 papal election.

Despite being Argentina's top church official, Bergoglio never lived in the ornate church mansion in Buenos Aires, preferring a simple bed in a downtown room heated by a small stove. For years, he took public transportation around the city and cooked his own meals.

Had a lung removed due to infection when he was a teenager.

Couldn't prevent Argentina from becoming the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage or stop its president, Cristina Fernandez, from promoting free contraception and artificial insemination. When Bergoglio argued that gay adoptions discriminate against children, Fernandez compared his tone to "medieval times and the Inquisition."

Critics accuse him of failing to stand up publicly against the country's military dictatorship from 1976-1983, when victims and their relatives often brought first-hand accounts of torture, death and kidnappings.

No Jesuit priest has ever served as pontiff.

Solid get

How many stars?

Took a unique papal name too. There has never been a Francis.

"Lighten up Francis" just took on a whole new meaning.

I'd like to kiss his ring.

according to the prophecy of the popes

This guy's a Jesuit? I thought the Pope had to be a Catholic

Jesuits are Catholics.

It are Pope'd. It are Pope'd indeed.

This Francis is way better than the new one(also a Jesuit)