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.  RNS photo courtesy Graphic News

(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.

Sally Morrow

Sally Morrow

Sally Morrow joined Religion News Service in March 2012 as Photo/Multimedia Editor. She is a photographer and editor based in Kansas City, Mo. Morrow has worked as a multimedia editor and photographer at Newsday, The Des Moines Register, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

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