It doesn't seem like much for someone who is (was) known as "the enforcer". Wars are still happening in the Muslim world and every other world for that matter. Protestant churches are just doin' their thing. The Roman Catholic church seems stagnant. America has not benefited off of his works. He hasn't made a big difference in my life or many others either. Nothing really note worthy in my opinion. I am sure he is under a lot of pressure and headaches and things. What government or religious leader isn't?

Francis has only been pope for a few shortyears. It is much too early to judge him and his reign until he has had time to adjust to his new responsibilities.

He attended the technical secondary school Escuela Técnica Industrial N° 27 Hipólito Yrigoyen and graduated with a chemical technician's diploma.In 1960, Bergoglio obtained a licentiate in philosophy from the Colegio Maximo de San Jose in San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province.

Pope Francis is heterosexual and celibate.

Depending upon how you number the previous popes, he would be pope number 266 or 267. Some lists count Pope Stephen II as a pope but he was a priest at the time of his election and had to be ordained as a bishop before he could be a pope. He died about 2 days after election and was never a bishop. Most sources count Francis as number 266.

There is only one pope and he rules the Church from the Vatican. In 2014 that pope is Pope Francis. Individual countries do not have popes.

He isn’t: he doesn’t stand for the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a classless society.

The Jesuits are a Catholic order of priests and other religious people. Pope Francis is a member of the Jesuit order. No other Jesuit has ever been pope, so he is the first Jesuit pope.

Pope Benedict XIV was born on March 31, 1675 and died on May 3, 1758. Pope Benedict XIV would have been 83 years old at the time of death or 340 years old today.

No, Pope Francis does not smoke.

Pope Francis made an apostolic visit to the United States and made major addresses at a joint meeting of Congress and at the United Nations. He also addressed the World Meeting of Families at Philadelphia. During his time in Washington he also canonized Father Junipero Serra.

It’s a nonsensical claim. No pope would ever advocate the abolition of the wages system, which is what Marxists advocate.

No, Peter is not his name.

Yes, Pope Francis was the Cardinal Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, Argentina; the city of his birth as well.

Yes, he is the leader of the Catholic Church. As bishop of Rome his church is the Basilica of Saint John Lateran. As Pope, his church is Saint Peter's Basilica.

probably, but he probably went to confession for it and was forgiven.

Pope Francis was the eldest of five children of Mario José Bergoglio, an Italian immigrant accountant born in Portacomaro (Province of Asti) in Italy's Piedmont region, and his wife Regina María Sívori, a housewife born in Buenos Aires to a family of northern Italian (Piedmontese-Genoese) origin.

No, Pope Francis never took part in child trafficking.