Francis was elected on March 13, 2013 as the 266th pontiff — and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope.

The Catholic Initiative is a Vatican-approved funding model to restore and endow vibrant Catholic churches, schools and parishes.

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color green: green clothes, green shamrocks, green beer and green rivers.