Pope Francis his papacy with the promulgation of "Laudato si'". In international diplomacy, he helped to restore full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba. Since 2016, Francis has faced increasingly open criticism, particularly from theological conservatives, on the question of admitting civilly divorced and remarried Catholics to Communion with the publication of "Amoris laetitia", and on the question of alleged systematic cover up of clergy sexual abuse. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on 17 December 1936 in Flores, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires. He was the eldest of five children of Mario José Bergoglio (1908–1959) and Regina María Sívori (1911–1981).
The News Is the News satirize, bludgeon, incinerate, josh, reduce to ashes, and otherwise play havoc with the real news of the preceding seven days," "TNITN" featured Karen Dale as the lead anchor, with Michael Davis, Simon Jones, Charlotte Moore, Lynne Thigpen and Trey Wilson as correspondents. Monty Python member Michael Palin also contributed a segment on the first anniversary of the surrender of Argentinian forces in the Falkland Islands. "The News Is the News" was also unusual in that it was carried live, from NBC's studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York; it was, at the time, the only (non-sports) program to air