07 January 2016, The Tablet

‘Bright, smiling and demanding’: Argentina's proposed new Ambassador to Holy See


 
The man reported to be nominated by the new President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, to represent his nation as Ambassador to the Holy See knows the Pope well: he was once taught by the then Jesuit Scholastic, who sparked in him an enduring love of literature As it is customary among the Jesuits, before being ordained, Jorge Bergoglio had a three-year spell as a teacher. He did so in the mid-1960s at my secondary school, the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepción, in the city of Santa Fe, almost 500 kilometres or some 300 miles north of Buenos Aires, in Argentina.This distinguished Jesuit school was founded in 1610. It closed temporarily in 1767, when the Jesuits were expelled from the Spanish colonies in the Americas, and reopened on their return in 1863. It remained a typical boys-o
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