Francis: Pray for Me is the first officially approved biopic of Pope Francis.
The movie takes us back to his younger days in Argentina and his path to the papacy, including his decision at the age of 20 to train as a priest against the wishes of his mother; his studies, his teaching career, his exile in Cordoba, his appointments as auxiliary bishop of Rome, as Archbishop of Buenos Aires and as a Cardinal before becoming Pope at the age of 76. The film continues to share the Pope’s battles against prostitution, drug trafficking and slave labor. Defender of the poor and the oppressed, he confronted the powerful against all odds. Based on the book “Pope Francis: Life and Revolution” by Elisabetta Piqué, a close friend of the Pope and a correspondent in Italy and the Vatican.
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