“An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, which were published this year. As the head of the Catholic Church for a dozen years, Francis was known for carrying his own bags, settling his own bills, and making his own phone calls.
Francis’s style was often freewheeling and flirted with chaos. He once told a World Youth Day audience to go out there and “make a mess.” For the early part of his pontificate, at least, the Vatican press officers frequently had to clarify his remarks.
Born Jorge Bergoglio in 1936 in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, he became a priest of the Jesuit order and a bishop under Pope John Paul II.
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