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Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

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Pope Francis died Monday, the Vatican announced, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with ...