Catholic Church has a new leader: Pope Francis

  1. Francis gets personal: ‘I didn’t want to be pope’

    Vatican City — Pope Francis has revealed that he never wanted to be pope and that he's living in the Vatican hotel for his "psychiatric" health.

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