VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church.
Francis is first pope from the Americas
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 | 2:47 p.m. CDT;
updated 10:59 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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