内容摘要：De La Cruz conectó un sencillo en la primera entrada y voló en la cuarta. Conectó su 12do jonrón en el sexto, caminó y anotó en el elevado de sacrificio de Tyler Stephenson en la novena.

De La Cruz conectó un sencillo en la primera entrada y voló en la cuarta. Conectó su 12do jonrón en el sexto, caminó y anotó en el elevado de sacrificio de Tyler Stephenson en la novena.

He refused for decades to counter that version of events. Only in a 2010 authorized biography did he finally recount the lengths he used to save them, persuading the family priest of feared dictator Jorge Videla to call in sick so he could celebrate Mass instead. Once in the junta leader’s home, Bergoglio privately appealed for mercy. Both priests were eventually released, among the few to have survived prison.As pope, accounts began to emerge of the many people — priests, seminarians and political dissidents —whom Bergoglio actually saved during the “dirty war,” letting them stay incognito at the seminary or helping them escape the country.

Bergoglio went to Germany in 1986 to research a never-finished thesis. Returning to Argentina, he was stationed in Cordoba during a period he described as a time of “great interior crisis.” Out of favor with more progressive Jesuit leaders, he was eventually rescued from obscurity in 1992 by St. John Paul II, who named him an auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires. He became archbishop six years later, and was made a cardinal in 2001.He came close to becoming pope in 2005 when Benedict was elected, gaining the second-most votes in several rounds before bowing out.Pope Francis waves faithfuls after celebrating over New Year’s Eve Vespers and Te Deum, in St.Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis waves faithfuls after celebrating over New Year’s Eve Vespers and Te Deum, in St.Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the camerlengo’s last name. It is Farrell, not Ferrell.

Associated Press writer Colleen Barry contributed from Milan.

Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’sBorn Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

He credited his devout grandmother Rosa with teaching him how to pray. Weekends were spent listening to opera on the radio, going to Mass and attending matches of the family’s beloved San Lorenzo soccer club. As pope,brought him a huge collection of jerseys from visitors.

He said he received his religious calling at 17 while going to confession, recounting in a 2010 biography that, “I don’t know what it was, but it changed my life. ... I realized that they were waiting for me.”He entered the diocesan seminary but switched to the Jesuit order in 1958, attracted to its missionary tradition and militancy.