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Pope Francis - The Sinner

Pope Francis. Using first-hand interviews with friends, contemporaries and students, the documentary "Pope Francis - The Sinner" explores how an Argentinian Jesuit and self-described “sinner” named Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the most powerful figure in Catholicism, and how he is working to modernize a church in crisis.
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Pope Francis. Using first-hand interviews with friends, contemporaries and students, the documentary "Pope Francis - The Sinner" explores how an Argentinian Jesuit and self-described “sinner” named Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the most powerful figure in Catholicism, and how he is working to modernize a church in crisis.

Airs Monday, September 21, 2015 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Pope Francis has been hailed as a revolutionary since his election to the papacy in 2013, but he faces a daunting task: to simultaneously reform the troubled Catholic Church and keep it from falling apart.

Using first-hand interviews with friends, contemporaries and students, the documentary "Pope Francis – The Sinner" explores how an Argentinian Jesuit and self-described “sinner” named Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the most powerful figure in Catholicism, and how he is working to modernize a church in crisis.

© 2015 RTÉ. RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) is Ireland's national public-service media organization. Distributed by American Public Television

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