Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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After this week's election of Pope Francis I, one of our star researchers found footage of him from 2001. In it, Pope John Paul II makes the then Buenos Aires Archbishop Bergoglio a cardinal.

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