Nigeria, April 22 -- From the narrow streets of Buenos Aires to the grand halls of the Vatican, Jorge Mario Bergoglio's journey was one of destiny, sacrifice and an unrelenting pursuit of justice. A man who never sought power but wielded it with humility, his rise from a Jesuit priest to the supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church was nothing short of extraordinary.

His calling was not marked by grandeur but by an intimate spiritual awakening in the quiet of a confessional on the feast of Saint Matthew. That moment set him on a path that would shake the foundations of the Church and challenge the complacency of a world in moral decay. As a young priest, he walked among the poor, spoke truth to power and led with the conviction that faith ...