In January 1980, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis ... Then 43, the future Pope had just completed a seven-year stint as head of the Jesuit order in Argentina, during a military dictatorship.
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17 ... as he developed a bad case of pneumonia at about age 21 and lost part of a lung. He joined the Jesuit novitiate in 1958, the start ...