Journal of the Oriens Foundation
By Joseph Mathews | California Catholic Daily | April 25, 2013:
Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on December 17, 1936 in the middle class district of Flores in the centre part of Buenos Aires City. He was one of the five children of an Argentinian born housewife and an immigrant railway worker from the Piedmont region of Italy who according to María Elena – the Pope’s only living sibling – left the country out of disaffection for Italy’s fascist dictatorship.
By Joyce Coronel | The Catholic Sun | May 13, 2013:
PHEONIX (ARIZONA) – Many Catholics are unaware of the various Eastern rite communities within the Church. Pope Francis would not be one of them.
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith | Catholic Herald | May 8, 2013:
ROME – The death of Giulio Andreotti, at the age of 94, marks a milestone in Italian, indeed European, history. Andreotti dominated Italian politics for decades, and was nicknamed l’eterno, the “Eternal One”.
By John L. Allen Jr. | National Catholic Reporter | April 2, 2013:
BUENOS AIRES– For all those curious as to whether Pope Francis can deliver the reform of the Roman Curia that was so much in the air during the pre-conclave period, the right person to ask would probably be someone who knows the Vatican from the inside out, and who also watched then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio work in Argentina.
By Robert Moynihan | Inside the Vatican: The Moynihan Letters | March 12, 2013, Tuesday:
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