A pope from the americas. The Catholic Church chooses Jorge Bergoglio to be the first jesuit to have the Catholic Church. What praise for his work with the port, the new pope has long been dogged by accusations that his role during the dictatorship in argentina. Goolsbee with a leading argentine journalists who expose the new popes connection to two just what priests by the dictatorship as well as his alleged role in helping to hide Political Prisoners from a visiting delegation of the interamerican human rights commission. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The papal conclave has selected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of argentina to be the new pope. He replaces Pope Benedict, who shocked the Catholic Church last month when he became the first pontiff to resign in almost 600 years. Bergoglio has taken the name pope francis, the first pope from latin america and the first not to hail from europe in more