Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, in which capacity he is Bishop of Rome and absolute Sovereign of the Vatican City State. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked briefly as a chemical technician and nightclub bouncer before entering the seminary.He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus. He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and was created a Cardinal in 2001. Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. He chose his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi (the priest who preached unbiblical heresy & was known for baptizing and preaching to birds and animals). Francis is the first Jesuit Pope (the Jesuits were the primary tool used by the Catholic Church during the Spanish Inquisition to persecute and murder tens of thousands of true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ), the first Pope from the Americas, the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European Pope since Pope Gregory III in 741, 1272 years earlier. Pope Francis stated he desires to evangelize the world and to "re-evangelize" the areas of the world that they are a predominant force. Pope Francis has challenged his flock of 1 billion Catholics not to be "starched Christians" who chat about theology over tea. Meanwhile, here are eye-openers Francis has uttered thus far. 1) There's a "gay lobby" inside the Vatican 2) All atheists go to heaven? 3) "I didn't want to be pope"
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Richard Bennett spent twenty-one years as a RC priest in Trinidad, WI. After a serious accident in 1972, he began to study seriously the Bible. After fourteen years of contrasting Catholicism to Biblical truth, he was convicted by the Gospel message. In 1986, he saw that...
