Religion in Italy North-West, 62%, 16% and 13%, respectively. The headquarters of the 1.2-billion strong Catholic Church, the State of Vatican City (see also Holy See), is an enclave within the city of Rome and, thus, the Italian territory. The Church's world leader, the Pope, is the Bishop of Rome, hence the special relationship between Italians and the Church—and the latter's entanglement with Italian politics (see Lateran Treaty and the section below on religion and politics). The current Pope is Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who, before his election in 2013, is from Argentina and was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires from 1998
Jorge Fondebrider Ulster cycle, a collection of Irish traditional short stories, a book on Anglo-Scottish ballads and "Peter Street & otros poemas" (2008), by the Irish poet Peter Sirr. In 2009 he co-founded with Julia Benseñor the Club de Traductores Literarios de Buenos Aires (http://clubdetraductoresliterariosdebaires.blogspot.com/). Jorge Fondebrider Jorge Fondebrider (Buenos Aires, 1956) is an Argentinian poet, critic and translator. His published poetry books are "Elegías" (1983), "Imperio de la Luna" (1987), "Standards" (1993), "Los últimos tres años" (2006) and "La extraña trayectoria de la luz. Poemas reunidos 1983-2013" (2016). Also he was translated into English ("The Spaces Between", an anthology translated by