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" It&amp;#039;s official, we now have a new pope and for the first time (ever) he isn&amp;#039;t European. Many expected a much longer wait in the rainy Vatican City, but on Wednesday the white smoke rose. What&amp;#039;s even better is he&amp;#039;s Latino! Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has taken the position of Pope. The 76-year old will be the 266th pope, the first ever Jesuit, and will take the name Francis I. It comes as a bit of a shock since most speculated the pope would be younger and many didn&amp;#039;t even consider Jorge a contender. The over a billion Roman Catholics will be celebrating, humbly of course, the announcement of the new Papa. Obama has named him a &amp;quot;champion of the poor&amp;quot; and hopes he will bring forth the best love and compassion in everyone. We&amp;#039;re so excited that the new Pope is Latino and that he plans to have people work together to find solutions to the problems our world faces! Want more from Krystyna? Follow her on Twitter @Krysty_C "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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