Huffington Post posted this video interview and article shortly after the new Pope was announced -

The headline -

Gawker also seemed rather surprised and disappointed that the Catholic Church did not pick a supporter of gay marriage -

What is certain is that Bergoglio has since made no bones about his part in a different kind of war, this one against gay people. And that’s not hyperbole on our part; Brergoglio himself calls it “a war.”

If it’s any consolation—and if you’re gay it’s probably not—the Guardian reports that, despite his many conservative stances (and possible war crimes), Pope Francis believes condoms “can be permissible” to prevent the passage of infection. It only took thousands of years, but there you have it: Condoms might possibly be OK in order to help prevent scores and scores of people from constantly dying of AIDS. Welcome to progress, Catholic style.

Former Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez’ hand picked successor, Nicolas Maduro had this to say regarding the newly elected Latin American Pope -

“We know that our commander (Hugo Chavez) ascended to the heights and is face-to-face with Christ,” Maduro said at a Caracas book fair. “Something influenced the choice of a South American pope, someone new arrived at Christ’s side and said to him: ‘Well, it seems to us South America’s time has come.’”

From Mother Jones -

He was ordained a priest in 1969 and by 1973 he was a bureaucrat—almost no history of serving ordinary people in parish life. He was a midlevel Jesuit functionary and then worked for many years in the Curia in Rome. His profile fits those of many bishops and cardinals appointed by the last two popes—youngish when appointed, little pastoral experience. Working as a Jesuit provincial doesn’t tell you much about the lives of women or children, of working and starving families.

Vamos a ver; we will see. The job of Pope can turn the most humble man into a elitist. After all, you are infallible.

I expected little; I think my expectations have been met.

Editor in Chief of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger  tweeted this -

was Pope Francis an accessory to murder and false imprisonment ? is.gd/0AtOyY

— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) March 13, 2013

And later tweeted the corrected article -

Amended Hugh O’Shaughnessy piece on Pope Francis bit.ly/ZIOXsW The Catholic church & the Junta bit.ly/WpdbJY

— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger) March 14, 2013

The correction read something like this -

This article was amended on 14 March 2013. The original article, published in 2011, wrongly suggested that Argentinian journalist Horacio Verbitsky claimed that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio connived with the Argentinian navy to hide political prisoners on an island called El Silencio during an inspection by human rights monitors. Although Verbitsky makes other allegations about Bergoglio’s complicity in human right abuses, he does not make this claim. The original article also wrongly described El Silencio as Bergoglio’s “holiday home”. This has been corrected.