Joan Acocella and Margaret Talbot on Pope Francis.
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🗓️ 16 March 2013
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Joan Acocella and Margaret Talbot on Pope Francis.
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| 1:17.3 | about politics. It's Thursday, March 14th. I'm Amy Davidson in this week for Dorothy |
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| 1:24.9 | Pray we all the world, because there is a grand fraternance. |
| 1:31.3 | Yesterday, on the second day of the conclave and on the fifth ballot, |
| 1:35.8 | Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergolio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected Pope. |
| 1:41.3 | He has taken the name Francis. |
| 1:43.9 | I'm joined by Margaret Talbot and Joan Acacella. |
| 1:46.9 | Joan, in a piece he wrote about St. Francis of a Sissy, you told the story about a woman, a |
| 1:52.7 | contemporary of St. Francis, who asked him, why you? How would the first Pope Francis answer that |
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| 2:04.1 | It's, I think it's, you know, it's quite logical, even if he is the first Francis. Actually, |
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