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  • It’s Pope Francis — not Francis I
      Latin America’s first pope — Jorge Mario Bergoglio — will be known as Francis, rather than Francis I, until such time as a future pope chooses the same name. “Cardinalem Bergoglio qui sibi nomen imposuit Franciscum,” the Vatican’s proto-deacon said as he presented the new leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to the...
    March 14, 2013 20:43
  • Pope to quit Twitter after stepping down
    The pope’s official Twitter account, which has more than two million followers in nine languages, will close next week when Benedict XVI leaves office, Vatican Radio said Friday. After a high-profile launch on December 12 under the name @pontifex, the pontiff’s online musings quickly attracted over 1.5 million followers in English. Around a million other users...
    February 23, 2013 13:57