SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic faithful across Latin America rejoiced that the new Pope Francis was one of them but, while positive, reaction from the rest of the world was not always so effusive as the 2,000-year-old Church confronts a time of great crisis.
Some commentators said Francis had a reputation for being as conservative as his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, but Latin Catholics celebrated that cardinals had, in his own words, gone "to the end of the world" to find him.
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