Today, Pope Francis oversees the spiritual paths of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics from the gilded city-state of the Vatican. But at some point in the 1950s, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a tango-loving Buenos Aires youngster tasked with keeping troublemakers out of a local bar, according to Italian newspaper Gazzetta del Sud. He described this, along with several other humble first jobs, to a gathering of worshippers in a church in Rome soon after taking over the papacy in 2013, as NPR reported.
