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
Mario Maisonnave number one for 4 weeks in Central America, achieving gold status. The album included the single "Abrime tu corazon" which put Mario as the first Central American pop artist to enter MTV Latin. Maisonnave currently lives in Southern California where he writes and produces for other artists as well as for his current project Bebeperro. Mario Maisonnave Mario Maisonnave (born Buenos Aires November 19, 1962) is an Argentinian/Costa Rican singer / songwriter / producer. Maisonnave is best known as the founder and lead vocalist of rock en español band - but he started out in Distorsion, the first rock act