CNN
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About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission.
A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of questions and asked Francis, referring to him by his birth name, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?” Francis stared at the fellow Jesuit in silence before answering.
“I am a sinner,” Francis said in the 2013 interview. “This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.”
When Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, a Maryland-based Catholic group that advocates for…
