White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney and Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, emerged as Pope Francis — the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit pope, and the first to take the name Francis in the Church's history. He asked the crowd in St. Peter's Square to pray for him before he gave his first blessing, a small reversal of the usual order that people who were there remember as setting the tone for the papacy that followed.
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