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Take a Look at the Pope's Humble Abode in Buenos Aires

By (@rojasingrid)
March 18, 2013
In this picture taken March 3, 2013, Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio drinks
In this picture taken March 3, 2013, Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio drinks "mate," a traditional local beverage, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/ DyN)

By now Pope Francis' humble lifestyle is widely known—he prefers public transportation over limos, he pays his own bills and he apparently avoids fancy meals. And when he became archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, he ditched the palace he was entitled to, for a small downtown apartment.

In this picture taken March 3, 2013, Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio drinks "mate," a traditional local beverage, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AP Photo/ DyN
In this picture taken March 3, 2013,... View Full Size
In this picture taken March 3, 2013, Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio drinks "mate," a traditional local beverage, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AP Photo/ DyN
In this picture taken March 3, 2013, Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio drinks "mate," a traditional local beverage, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Univision's Tifani Roberts traveled to Buenos Aires to find out for herself how the archbishop's palace and Pope Francis' apartment fare up.

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