On June 22, a gala classical concert -- planned prior to the papal elections -- was held at the Vatican for an audience of cardinals and Italian dignitaries. The guest of honor was supposed to be the newly elected bishop of Rome -- the austere former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina -- who decided to take on the vestige of St.
The New Pope Is Taking On The Vatican’s Traditionalists
…When he’s not being crushed by the Church’s bureaucracy, that is.