(RNS1-mar21) March 19, 2013 — World leaders are heading to Rome for Tuesday’s inauguration mass for Pope Francis. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics will be formally enthroned at a mass in St Peter’s Square, with city authorities preparing for an influx of up to one million people to Rome. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, who until his election was Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is the first pope from Latin America and the first Jesuit to become pontiff. Illustration shows Pope Francis I. For use with RNS-POPE-FRANCIS, transmitted on March 21, 2013, RNS photo courtesy Graphic News.
