National Catholic Reporter Senior Correspondent John Allen Jr., who also serves as CNN’s Vatican expert, called the pope’s choice of names “precedent-shattering” and discussed what it might symbolize.

The new pope reportedly cooks for himself (at least, until now), but he’s no foodie, according to NPR.

The Washington Post notes that although Francis is the first pope from Latin America, he is not the first non-European pontiff.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reports that as of 2010, 39 percent of the world’s Catholics live in Latin America and nearly three-quarters of that region’s population is Catholic.

Read an article by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano on the Jesuits and their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, posted by CatholicCulture.org.

BBC Radio aired a program in January 2007 about the Jesuit religious order.

For a list of the cardinals who selected the new pope and basic information on each one, see this “who’s who” compiled by Vatican analyst Sandro Magister.

Read a March 11, 2013, account by journalist John Thavis about the last conclave, in which Bergoglio was reportedly runner-up for the papacy.

Read John Allen Jr.’s March 3, 2013, profile of Bergoglio in the National Catholic Reporter.