Approachable and opaque: 10 years of Pope Francis
18 March 2023 |
3:47 pm
When the papal conclave elected a clergyman from Argentina as pope on March 13, 2013, the world immediately started asking questions. Ten years later, historians and theologians assess what he has achieved.
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