childhood, he was the typical family of migrants from italy. journalist elisabetha pique has known the pope for more than a decade and has written a book about him called pope francis: life and revolution. he had a very normal childhood. he would go and play with friends in the street. he would play football. people were very struck by his concern for others. i think that was there from the very, very beginning. translator: in 1950, i started at the school that was called the food industry. i studied chemistry dedicated to food industry and that s where we met. oscar crespo has been close friends with pope francis since they met in school 65 years ago. translator: we were good friends. and the truth was that he was one of the students that stood
modern history, gone. all the cardinals go into the sistine chapel and start what is the most important moment of their careers as cardinals. that moment, to elect a new pope, but this time something was different. remember the secret affairs, you re not supposed to know who got what, but a cardinal who had taken part in that 2005 conclave later that year published a diary which gave a very detailed account of the voting and the numbers. some say it was no accident the diary came out. to show there was someone other than cardinal ratzinger getting support. cardinal jorge bergoglio. he was deeply alarmed by this and over lunch on the second day of the conclave said to the other cardinals, no, do not vote for me, please vote for joseph ratzinger. but why? journalist elisabetha pique
far out of the way. they exiled bergoglio, sending him to cordoba, 400 miles from buenos aires. translator: he went to cordoba to go through a period of reflection, of silence. father angel rossi who has known pope francis for 40 years used to visit with him in cordoba. translator: he said, i never considered it an injustice. these were the circumstances. it was painful and he did not have it easy. this journalist and javier interviewed pope francis about his time in cordoba. translator: a lot of people talking about it as being an exile, that they took him out of buenos aires and sent him to cordoba with no activity, no role, not even a mass schedule. he lost all authority. translator: the pope, himself, told us that in cordoba, he spent time in the shadows. a dark time.
for me, please vote for joseph ratzinger. but why? journalist elisabetha pique knows bergoglio well enough that he baptized both of her kids. i think i would respond with something he said to little girl from jesuit school and she asked, did you want to be pope? he said, you have to be crazy, you have to be totally crazy to want to be a pope. perhaps cardinal bergolio didn t want the pomp and the politics or didn t feel ready for the papacy. perhaps he simply felt his place was here. leading the priests of buenos aires in the work that mattered most to him, ministering to those in need. he wanted his priests to be in the hospitals, in the old people s homes, in the shantytowns, in the places of suffering. like this, one of the worst
he was the typical family of migrants from italy. journalist elisabetha pique has known the pope more than a decade and wrote a book about him called pope francis: life and revolution. he had a very normal childhood. he would go and play with friends in the street. he would play football. people were very struck by his concern for others. i think that was there from the very, very beginning. translator: in 1950, i started at the school that was called the food industry. i studied chemistry dedicated to food industry and that s where we met. oscar crespo has been close friends with pope francis since they met in school 65 years ago. translator: we were good friends. and the truth was that he was one of the students that stood out most in class. very smart, but not arrogant. he was very willing to share and to help. translator: one of his characteristics, a characteristic of his entire life was humility.