Argentina celebrates 10 years of Pope Francis’ pontificate
When he appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on March 13, 2013, in his plain white papal robes, the newly elected Jorge Bergoglio immediately presented an image of a different kind of papacy.
The smiling, outspoken Jesuit was in sharp contrast to his reserved, intellectual predecessor Benedict XVI, who shocked the world by becoming the first pope since the Middle Ages to resign.
And Francis had a plan — to reform the governance of the Church plagued by inertia, clean up its murky finances and turn its focus outwards.
Here is a look at Argentina’s celebration of the day Francis took over the reins of the Catholic church.
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