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Pope Francis Angers Traditionalists With Interfaith Views

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In 2006, before he was Pope Francis, Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was invited to an open-air Pentecostal worship service in the Argentine capital. Argentina was, and still is, a hive of intensely charismatic evangelical Christianity – which for decades has been poaching Catholics from the church throughout Latin America. The Luna Park stadium was filled with some 7,000 worshippers. The preachers asked Bergoglio if they could pray for him. “The first thing that occurred to...

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