Your correspondents in Argentina must come from those connected with the high and mighty.
Apparently, they do not work/live in the shanty towns among the people who saw Jorge Bergoglio every day.  He knew every one of the eight hundred priests in his archdiocese.  According to Pepe Di Paola, vicar for the priests in the shanty-towns, "Bergoglio followed them [priests] closely, listened to them, helped and assisted them in moments of personal crisis.  His priests trusted him, confided in him in a way they would not with other archbishops, tell him sincerely what they were experiencing, and often show up at the cathedral, not because they have to, but to hear his spiritual word."


J. Di Paola, interview with Marco Politi, journalist with "il Fatto Quotidiano"