Your Holiness! Come on Down!

It's a first time for many things it seems. New Pope Francis I is the 226th Holy Father and the first to be both from Latin America (Argentina) and a Jesuit.

Seems like an interesting fellow, he chose the name Francis in honour of Saint Francis Xavier rather than take the name of one of the apostles, to be fair there have been a great many Pauls and Johns! He seems to have good relationships with bothe the Jewish and Islamic communities in Buenos Aires and he's an outspoken opponent of corruption and sexual abuse (then again as the vicar of Christ I imagine that's what most say!) But, he's also fairly young, as far as Popes go, only 76! We can expect this fellow to be around to a while, and I wish him the best of luck!