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a Pope Chosen

By QNS Editorial Posted on March 14, 2013

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The corner of 58th Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside was renamed “Martin M. Trainor Way” last Saturday

Catholics across Queens, Brooklyn and around the world celebrated the election of Pope Francis I on Wednesday, Mar. 13. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio and previously a cardinal from Argentina, Francis I- elected by the College of Cardinals on the fifth ballot in the Vatican conclave-is the first pope ever to emanate from the New World. He succeeds Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who resigned on Feb. 28.

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