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The last pope is here!

He has been chosen, we just don’t know who he is yet, but there was early indication of who he might be by reports of anti-mafia police raids to his offices 🙂 Promising start !

Anti-mafia police raid offices in diocese of frontrunner

Update: it is the Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio – the son of an Italian railway worker!

CNN: Francis, 76, is the first non-European pope in the modern … The name parallels one of the most venerated figures in the Roman Catholic Church, St. Francis of Assisi

CNN blog

An interesting article … The Way of Francis of Assisi – The Way of Rome

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