Pope Francis has had to learn fast how to deal with Vatican politics since he was elected in 2013. A new biography reveals how he had honed his skills in Buenos Aires dealing with presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on 25 May 2004 the Te Deum service in the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, a traditional service marking the anniversary of Argentina’s independence from Spain and emergence as a nation state, attended by the Peronist President Néstor Kirchner and celebrated by then Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, marked a turning point in the relations between the two men. Bergoglio made a thinly veiled attack on the falsehoods emanating from the propaganda machinery of the new Peronist government. He criticised a strategy of “exhibition