The America of Pope Francis: travels and battles of the first bishop of Rome “of the end of the world”

The man who appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, on March 13, 2013, appears embarrassed, as embarrassed to have to place himself under the light. Almost no one knows who he is and, even among the journalists present in the fine rain of this glacial evening, many, at the announcement of his name, turned to a more caped colleague to know who he was talking about. "You know that the task of the conclave was to give a bishop in Rome. It se…

The first American Pope. The colletilla accompanied Francis since March 13, 2013, when Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio came to the balcony of St. Peter’s Square and joked: “You know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my cardinal brothers have gone to look for him at the end of the world. But here we are.” The Pontiff was for more than a decade the main ambassador of the continent, where Catholics share the …

During the twelve years of his pontificate, he put the peripheries of the world at the centre of the Catholic Church, without radically changing Rome's position on several societal issues.

Every death of a Pope is of enormous significance, since not only is the Holy See the head of one of the most widespread religions on the planet and with the largest number of followers, but it is also a state, subject to international law, which, despite its tiny territory (possibly one of the smallest countries in the world), exerts enormous influence in international relations. When Pope Francis assumed office in Rome in 2013, in his first wo…

Francis has received Andalusian political representatives in a pontificate that has prioritized travel to the periphery of Catholicism