Cardinals and bishops attend a mourning Mass for Pope Francis on the third day of Novendiali (nine days of mourning after the Pope's funeral) at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a Vatican official, instead spending decades in local ministry. And he came from Argentina, the first pope from the Americas.
As the world's Catholic cardinals meet this week to discuss who should succeed Francis, the deliberations may boil down to a simple choice:
