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The new pope often visited the slums of Buenos Aires

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This Aug. 7, 2009 file photo shows Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio giving a mass outside the San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires. Bergoglio, who took the name of Pope Francis, was elected on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, right, gives a mass outside San Cayetano church in Buenos Aires, Friday Aug.7, 2009.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Buenos Aires Roman Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, right, blesses Catholic faithfuls who gathered in the sanctuary of St. Cayetano to pray to the patron saint of labor for jobs and prosperity in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2005.Daniel Luna/The Associated Press

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Pope Benedict XVI, right, embraces Jorge Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the inauguration ceremony of the V Conference of Latin American and the Caribbean Bishops in Aparecida, Brazil, Sunday, May 13, 2007.Ricardo Mazalan/The Associated Press

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The Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio leads a mass at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, celebrates a Mass in honor of Pope John Paul II at the Buenos Aires Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina Monday, April 4, 2005.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Children play in a Buenos Aires's shatytown, Saturday April, 16, 2005. The slum, a hodgepodge of dirt roads and simple brick homes clustered in an industrial section of Argentina's capital and home to some 30,000 people, is known as Villa 21, is often visited by Achbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Maria Esther Romano, 76, holds a picture of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, during a mass in a Buenos Aires's shantytown, Saturday April, 16, 2005. The slum, a hodgepodge of dirt roads and simple brick homes clustered in an industrial section of Argentina's capital and home to some 30,000 people, is known as Villa 21, is often visited by Achbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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Catholics gather in front of a chapel in a Buenos Aires's shantytown, Saturday April, 16, 2005. The slum, a hodgepodge of dirt roads and simple brick homes clustered in an industrial section of Argentina's capital and home to some 30,000 people, is known as Villa 21, is often visited by Achbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press

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The archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio washes the feet of a unidentified woman on Holy Thursday at the Buenos Aires' Sarda maternity hospital, March 24, 2005. .Tony Gomez/Reuters

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Argentine Cardinal Bergoglio washing the feet of two newly born children on Holy Thursday in Buenos Aires.Tony Gomez/Reuters

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This Jan. 13, 2007 file photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, then Pope Benedict XVI, left, shakes hands with the archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio during their meeting at the Vatican, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2007. Bergoglio, who took the name of Pope Francis, was elected on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.Anonymous/The Associated Press

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