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The Catholic Church has been undoubtedly going through a period of profound crisis. Endless scandals and conspiracies have plagued the Church in recent years, and with resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in February 2013, the Catholic community was left in dire need of direction and spiritual renewal. Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, elected to Saint Peter s Throne on March 13, 2013, in one of the briefest conclaves in history, represents a rekindled sense of hope for the Church s 1.2 billion followers. The first Jesuit to occupy the papacy, Pope Francis I is also the first pope ever to hail from the Americas, and has inspired an enormous sense of pride, especially among Latin Americans and his native Argentina. Francis: A Pope for Our Time, The Definitive Biography incisively chronicles Pope Francis ancestry, youth, call to faith, humble beginnings with the Society of Jesus, and rise through Argentina s ecclesiastical ranks, all the way to the Vatican.