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Summary of today\u2019s show: Who is Pope Francis? Scot Landry and Fr. Roger Landry talk about the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, who he is, how he was elected, what he was like as a Jesuit priest and archbishop in Argentina, and what we can expect from him in the future. Plus, how to address all the supposed controversies that will be dragged up to try to throw doubt on him.\nListen to the show:\n\nWatch the show via live video streaming or a recording later: \nToday\u2019s host(s): Scot Landry\nToday\u2019s guest(s): Fr. Roger Landry\nLinks from today\u2019s show:\n\n\n\n\nToday\u2019s topics: LIVE from Rome: Who is Pope Francis?\n1st segment: Scot welcomed everyone to the show. Last night we heard the announcement of Pope Francis and he said it was a great honor to be in the crowd. He thinks the Church is going to love Pope Francis. He has lived a simple life as archbishop of Buenos Aires. HE thinks he will be a pope of signs and gestures.\nHe welcomed Fr. Roger to the show. Fr. Roger said he was on live with Fox News and while Megyn Kelly was hesitant to say it was white smoke, he said it was clearly white compared to the previous black smoke. As soon as he was done, he ran down the stairs to the street and ran the blocks to the St. Peter\u2019s Square so he could do a live video on his iPhone so his parishioners back home could experience it.\nFr. Roger said he\u2019d originally thought after five ballots, the odds were high it was Cardinal Scola or maybe it was Cardinal Dolan. He said when Cardinal Tauran came out and said \u201cGeorgium\u201d, he quickly ran through the handful of Georges among the cardinals and then was stunned to hear \u201cBergoglio\u201d.\nScot said he and George Martell were up front among young people and young sisters. They couldn\u2019t hear clearly and so when he heard Franciscum, he thought maybe he\u2019d misheard earlier and it might be Cardinal Se\xe1n. There was a long wait for the Holy Father to come out and they saw the new Pope Francis. Scot said he was very quiet and he paused for a long time looking out on St. Peter\u2019s Square. He might have been reflecting on his awesome new responsibility. Fr. Roger said he has a beautiful smile but his reputation is that he doesn\u2019t let it erupt very often.\nFr. Roger said his Italian is beautiful because his parents were Italian immigrants to Argentina. His first words were simple and humble. He addressed everyone as brothers and sisters. He immediately said, \u201cRome has her bishop.\u201d He was making a connection to one of his principal duties. Today, he went over to St. Mary Major to pray before an image of Our Lady. There was a fire in the 6th century that would have destroyed a major part of the city and Pope St. George carried the image in procession through the fire and extinguished it. It was made famous again in 1940 when Pope Pius XII processed with the image all night to pray that Rome would be spared from Nazi carpetbombing. Huge cloud cover came over and instead the bombs dropped on a huge cemetery outside the city.\nScot said two things stood out to him. The first was that he kept calling himself Bishop of Rome, not Supreme Pontiff or Pope. Something else that stood out to him was that he asked everyone to pray over him before he blessed the crowd. Fr. Roger said it shows that he\u2019s first a man of prayer. He suffered in the Church in Argentina as the Jesuit order there had been taken over by those who believed in a Marxist Gospel. He was or less banished to be a simple chaplain, but he ended up becoming a great confessor and spiritual director. So his first act as pope was to lead everyone in prayer for Benedict XVI.\nFr. Roger made the distinction that he asked us to pray for God to bless him. What moved Fr. Roger was how profoundly he bowed during the prayer to receive the strength to do what he\u2019s been asked to do. Fr. Roger gave him his priestly blessing just like newly ordained priests give their bishop a blessing during their ordination Mass.\nScot asked the significance of the name Francis. He\u2019s very popular in Italy and one of the two patron saints of Italy with St. Catherine of Siena. Fr. Roger said St. Francis was praying in the dilapidated church of San Damiano and heard Christ speak from the crucifix to rebuild his church. At first he thought it meant rebuild that chapel, but then the Lord made it clear to rebuild the church of men, women, and children, the living stones. When St. Francis came to Rome, on the eve of his appearance, Pope Innocent had a dream of a man in a burlap sack holding up the corner of St. John Lateran Church, the pope\u2019s cathedral. The next day he saw this friar from his dream came in. He had been there to ask to start a religious order, which wasn\u2019t being done any more because they thought there were too many already.\nPope Francis knows that the reform begins with each of us living our faith, living stone by living stone, this is how Christ\u2019s whole Church will proclaim that is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic.\nScot asked the significance of a Jesuit taking the name of St. Francis. Fr. Roger said he shares St. Francis\u2019 love for the poor and his personal simplicity. He thinks it\u2019s a unifier in that St. Francis is the one human being, no matter what religion or no religion, consider the one saint. There is universal reverence for St. Francis of Assisi. Pope Francis, if he lives up to the standard, will unite the Church in prayer and simple, humble service.\nScot said he\u2019s likely to be a pope of symbols. As archbishop, he gave up his mansion and moved into an apartment, gave up his limo and rode public transportation, and gave up his cook to make his own meals. Even last night, he eschewed the papal limo and took the cardinals\u2019 bus back to the Casa S. Martae. He preached that he didn\u2019t need any of the fancy things of his office.\nFr. Roger said there\u2019s a distinction between symbols and signs. Symbols are arbitrary, like a stop sign. Smoke is a sign of a fire which points naturally to what it\u2019s related. So his actions are signs pointing to a real connection. It was far more symbolic, but signs of who he is and who we as Christians ought to be. When he invited the ailing emeritus archbishop to live with him in that apartment and cooked meals for both of them, he invited in a very poor community to use the episcopal residence. He\u2019s trying to live as Jesus would live. You can\u2019t preach the Gospel to the poor arriving in a Mercedes-Benz.\nIn the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, information came out that Cardinal Bergoglio was runner up and had 40 votes in the second to last ballot. It\u2019s also reported he stood and asked his supporters to vote for Ratzinger. It shows he\u2019s had strong support from his brother cardinals and he wasn\u2019t gunning for the job. Fr. Roger said for all the cardinals all who participated in 2005, about half of those still in this years\u2019 conclave, Pope Francis wouldn\u2019t have lost any of those qualities. He is a teacher who teaches by his lips and life; he\u2019s a reformer who reformed the Jesuits in Argentina and the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. That means he\u2019s a man who could clean up the Roman Curia.\nScot said he\u2019s the first pope from the Americas, first Francis, and first Jesuit. Scot said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said Pope Francis comes from the new heartland of the Catholic Church. Forty-two percent of Catholics come from Latin America. Fr. Roger said he\u2019s thrilled to have the first American pope. We\u2019ve been formed by the European missionaries and now Europe needs to be re-evangelized.\nItalians noted how well Pope Francis spoke Italian, a native son who brought back real gifts from abroad.\nScot said in the US we call ourselves Americans, but everyone in North, South and Central America are Americans. In the eyes of the Church, America includes all three. He said if you measure from the tip of Alaska to the tip of Chile, Mexico City where our Lady of Guadalupe appeared is dead center. We should be proud of him as a native son.\nScot said he\u2019s pleased to see that Pope Francis asked someone to send out a tweet at the @Pontifex Twitter handle with the simple Habemus Papam Franciscum. Fr. Roger thinks he will continue to use media. Pope Francis knows the importance of using every pulpit possible to reach the people where they are. We\u2019ll see the continuation of this path in new media as a priority.\nScot noted the Holy Father\u2019s sense of humor in toasting the cardinals and saying, \u201cMay God forgive you\u201d for electing him. Fr. Roger talked about the Holy Father\u2019s emphasis in his ministry on God\u2019s forgiveness and merciful love.\nThey noted his episcopal motto translates as \u201cNeeding mercy and being chosen\u201d.\nScot and Fr. Roger discussed the controversies the media will latch onto. First, there is the claim of complicity with the military junta in Argentina. Second, supporting the Church\u2019s teaching on contraception, and Third, supporting the church\u2019s teaching on the family.\nOn the first, two of his Jesuit priests wanted to advocate violence to overturn the military junta. When they were arrested, they asked him, as provincial minister, to lie to protect them and he refused. Later he also stood up for them and put his life on the line to ask for them to be released. But he didn\u2019t lie.\nOn the teaching on contraception and condoms, it\u2019s said he advocated the use of condoms for the prevention of disease. Most Catholics don\u2019t know the Church\u2019s teaching with regard to contraception. Pope Paul VI said it\u2019s immoral for a married couple to use it to prevent conception. But in regards to acts of violence, like marital rape by a husband with AIDS, that\u2019s different.\nScot said some of the media have talked about how the new Holy Father could change the doctrine of the Church, which isn\u2019t possible. On the third element, he taught what the Church has always taught about the family and the rights of children to be raised in the context of mother and father.\nFr. Roger said Pope Francis defies categorization as a moderate, conservative or liberal. Catholics are to be 100% faithful to the Good News and 100% faithful to the Lord\u2019s command to love one another. He\u2019s 100% orthodox and 100% charitable.\nHe has said that same-sex activity is sinful, but those with those attractions are to be loved and afforded all their human rights, which don\u2019t include the right to marry another of the same sex or to adopt children along with someone of the same sex.\nPope Francis said children have a right to be raised by a mother and father, and children raised by two men or two women often report as adults that they have suffered as a result. It\u2019s child abuse when we say a child doesn\u2019t need both a mother and father, which is different from saying that if circumstances require they can be raised by one or another of their parents. It\u2019s about saying a child doesn\u2019t need a mother and a father.\nFr. Roger said the evil of sexual abuse of minors is horrible and disgusting. When Jesus was talking about the worst imaginable sin, he said one who hears what I says and teaches other to fail to live it is fit to be tied to a millstone and thrown in the sea. As evil as sexual abuse of minors is, this type of poison of false teaching that leads people away from heaven is even worse, if we can imagine it. Our culture can\u2019t pretend that there isn\u2019t real truth or that all paths lead to heaven. Pope Francis has fought that and the Church has fought it. We need to understand the importance of communicating the Good News even when we are signs of contradiction.\nScot said we look forward to Pope Francis\u2019 first few days. He\u2019s going to meet with Benedict XVI, meet with journalists, and on Sunday give a blessing at the Angelus, and on Tuesday morning there will be the Mass of inauguration and installation.\nFr. Roger talked of what he thinks we\u2019ll see from Pope Francis soon. He believes the Roman Curia reform will begin soon through his preaching and actions. He will lay the foundations over the next few days.