Many of the 40 international trips Pope Francis has made over the past 10 years have been to countries where Christians are a minority or where he can draw close to people on the fringes of the world’s attention.

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis almost 10 years ago, the world was immediately captivated by his vibrant personality, his simplicity, his love of the poor, and the fresh, and frankly unusual, papal vocabulary he has often adopted.

Pope Francis’ call for the church to serve those on the peripheries should prompt American Catholics to reimagine their role in U.S. public life, Catholics in politics or public life told OSV News shortly before the pontiff’s 10th anniversary as pope.

The teachings of Pope Francis are generating a new buzz in Latin America as the region gears up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the election of one of its own as bishop of Rome and leader of the world’s more than 1.3 billion Catholics.

On practically every issue of modern importance — from personal conversion to nationalist populism to the fragility of democracy, the abuse crisis, and the marginalized — Pope Francis has had something to say during his 10 years in office.