VATICAN CITY
LA Weekly
By Dennis Romero
Wed., Mar. 13 2013 at 12:18 PM
Perhaps in a nod to its Spanish speaking majority, the Catholic Church today announced that Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is its new pope.
He will apparently go by the name of Pope Francis I.
So is this guy the church’s first Latino pope?
Tough question. That’s like asking if L.A. mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti is Latino (he insists he is, pointing to his family’s time in Mexico).
Argentinians are often of pure Italian blood, and Bergoglio’s name certainly points to that.
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