The title speaks for itself; the newly dubbed Pope Francis (previously Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio) is the first Jesuit and first Latin American in modern times to lead the 1.2 billion large Catholic population. CNN outlines ‘5 things to know about the new pope’  painting him not only as the ‘pontiff of firsts,’ from his unique name choice to his non-European background, but also as a ‘people’s pope,’ an everyman, who faces a number of challenges with regards to the deteriorated reputation of the Catholic religion in light of the ‘sex abuse by priests and claims of corruption and infighting among the church hierarchy’ in recent years.