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Through simple actions he had enforced since his title of archbishop, the new Pope has begun to change everything that the Vatican had promoted. His name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio and he claims the title as the "first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, the first in more than a thousand years not to have been born in Europe, and the first to take the moniker Francis," (Draper 36). But the appearance of the pope is not the only thing he has changed. In fact pope Francis does not want to be looked upon as a leader of a religion, he wishes instead for the appearance of "a hospital on a battlefield," (Draper 37). He wishes to help all to the extent of a hospital on a battlefield.

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