He Roots for 'the Saints,' on the Soccer Field and Off

He Roots for 'the Saints,' on the Soccer Field and Off

BUENOS AIRES â€" San Lorenzo de Almagro, a top-division soccer club here, has holy beginnings. It was created in 1908 by Lorenzo Massa, a priest. One of the team's nicknames is Los Santos (the Saints), and the team's colors, blue and red, are said to

VATICAN CITY â€" He stopped to pay his hotel bill a day after becoming pope. He wore simple black shoes and an ordinary wristwatch with a thick black band to his first Mass as pontiff. He rode in a minivan to dinner with the cardinals who elected him,

Sneaking out of Vatican City â€" famously achieved by Pope John Paul II â€" is what will keep the new pope sane in a post that Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley yesterday likened to being “a prisoner in a museum.” O'Malley offered up his Vatican City survival

The Lede is tracking developments in the Vatican, where white smoke issued from a chimney, indicating that the conclave of 115 Cardinals gathered there elected a new pope on Wednesday afternoon.

After only a little more than a day, a new Pope had been chosen: Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. He got to pick a new name, and chose Francis, evoking the Saint of Assisi and his commitment to the poor. If that symbol