00:01Popes aren't usually elected while their predecessor is still alive.
00:05In fact, it hadn't happened for 600 years.
00:08But Pope Francis' succession of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013
00:12was the first indication that things at the top of the Catholic Church would be a bit different.
00:18As an Argentine Cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio would become the first Pope from South America,
00:24the first Jesuit Pope, and the first Pope to have an Instagram account.
00:28He was also the first to take the name Francis, in honour of St. Francis of Assisi,
00:33who devoted himself to a life of poverty.
00:36On the second, when I was elected, he raised me, hugged me, and told me,
00:43don't forget about the poor.
00:45Those are strong moments.
00:49I didn't expect it.
00:51It was like a great peace, a great peace.
00:54That healthy inconsciency that we have to give in the difficult times.
00:58Francis' homage to his 13th century namesake began immediately.
01:02On the night of his election, he took a bus back to his hotel with the Cardinals,
01:06rather than take the papal car.
01:08He was also the first Pope in a hundred years to live outside of the palatial papal residence,
01:13choosing instead to live in a simple apartment in the Vatican guesthouse.
01:17Born in Buenos Aires to Italian Argentine parents,
01:22Jorge Bergoglio qualified as a chemical technician
01:25and had jobs in his hometown as a bouncer and a janitor.
01:29He became a Catholic priest after recovering from life-threatening pneumonia
01:33and having part of a lung removed.
01:35His years as a priest coincided with his homeland's Dirty War,
01:39a military dictatorship ruling Argentina through terror during the late 70s and early 80s.
01:45Bergoglio was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992 and Archbishop in 1998.
01:52His outreach to the vicios miserias of Argentina's capital earned him the nickname the Slum Bishop.
01:58As Pope, Francis wrote an encyclical calling for greater care for the planet,
02:02and stated that developed nations had a moral obligation to assist developing nations in combating climate change.
02:09He presented it as a gift to climate change sceptic Donald Trump on his visit to the Vatican as US President in 2017.
02:17Francis met the survivors of clerical abuse on his 2018 visit to Ireland
02:22and apologised for Catholic Church sexual abuse cases.
02:25Likewise, in 2022 in Canada, Francis apologised for the Church's role in the abuse of Indigenous children.
02:32It was not just apologies for the evils of Church sex abuse that elicited mixed responses.
02:38On the perennial issues facing Catholicism, many felt Francis went too far, others not far enough.
02:45Francis formalised women's roles in the Catholic Church, but refused to ordain women as priests.
02:50He pushed for greater openness and inclusion of LGBT plus people,
02:55and for the worldwide decriminalisation of homosexuality,
02:58but was opposed to same-sex marriage, and spoke out against gender ideology.
03:03Francis' more humble and less formal approach to the paper seat drew people towards him,
03:08sometimes bringing out his very human side.
03:11Francis' commitment to interfaith dialogue saw him reach out across sectarian and religious lines
03:16in defence of the weak and the persecuted, as in this meeting with Iraq's top Shia cleric Ayatollah Sistani,
03:22on his visit to the country in 2021.
03:25Even in his second decade at the head of the Catholic Church,
03:28there was very little let-up in his schedule,
03:31but his more frequent public appearances in a wheelchair and his hints at resignation
03:35were a reminder of Francis' advancing years.
03:38Conservative yet progressive, Catholic with a big and a small C,
03:43an historical figure in the social media age.
03:46Pope Francis was the bouncer from Buenos Aires who rose to the top of the Vatican
03:51and yet kept his feet firmly on the ground.
03:54Pope Francis was the captain of thelıs.
03:59So or in his schwemceptor, he arranged his cremation to an officer on the border of the temple.
04:03So here we have the tools for this project,
04:20to remove the paper from the ground.
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