Profile Pope Francis : Curious Jorge

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Age:78

Appearance: frail, modest, kindly

Newsworthiness: Jorge Bergoglio’s long-term vision for the Catholic Church is still unclear after his first full year as the Bishop of Rome

Jorge Bergoglio sometimes feels that his supporters expect too much from him. “I don’t like the ideological interpretations, a certain ‘mythology of Pope Francis’,” he said in an interview earlier this year. “Depicting the Pope to be a sort of superman, a type of star, ...