{"id":22866,"date":"2025-04-22T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/spotlight-rive-gauche-televisions-pope-francis-documentary\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:01:36","slug":"spotlight-rive-gauche-televisions-pope-francis-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/spotlight-rive-gauche-televisions-pope-francis-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Rive Gauche Television&#8217;s Pope Francis Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rive Gauche Television is offering up a Pope Francis documentary special featuring exclusive interviews with Austen Ivereigh, author of <em>The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope<\/em>; NBC\u2019s Anne Thompson; Vatican officials and those closest to him.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Rive Gauche&#8217;s <em>In Their Own Words<\/em> series, the special chronicles the Pope\u2019s life from humble beginnings to the head of the Vatican, using exclusive interviews, archive footage, colorization and animated content to tell his story with carefully selected excerpts of the Pope\u2019s own words and an inside perspective from those closest to him.<\/p>\n<p>On March 13, 2013, at the age of 76, the Argentinean cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Making history, he was the first Pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit priest and the first to take the name Francis. This exclusive documentary reveals the Pope\u2019s life and experiences that led him from Buenos Aires to the Vatican and the highest office of the Catholic church. Pope Francis quickly became one of the most progressive and popular Popes of recent times by challenging topics such as social justice, climate change and human rights with an emphasis on the poor and marginalized. 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