Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period that saw Argentina’s wealth gap grow. At the same time, so did the shantytowns ...

who will retire later this year after succeeding Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when the latter became Pope Francis in 2013. Fernández shall not be seeking reelection and thus will complete his ...

was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires. The so-called “People’s Pope” briefly worked as a nightclub bouncer before becoming a Jesuit priest and later Archbishop of Buenos Aires.