Pope Francis - born Jorge Mario Bergogli - is the man who readily calls himself 'a sinner' which has commended him to many. Watch teaser clips of tonight's show below.
In just two years Pope Francis has put Roman Catholicism back on the map as a faith that has something to offer a troubled world and is beginning to revolutionise a church that was in crisis and losing its way.
“Francis has crystallised a new vision of the church that includes everybody” says Paul Vallely, the Pope’s early biographer. However, not everyone agrees and Mary McAleese, while she likes the new Pope, feels he just doesn’t get women: “There’s a blind side here…that leaves good men…like Francis still carrying a residual element of misogyny that closes them off…”
In tonight's Would You Believe special, at 9.35pm on RTÉ One, friends, contemporaries and students of Fr Bergoglio talk about the man they knew, and categorically deny his complicity in Argentina’s Dirty War.
Watch this series of clips from the programme, one of which explores the question of his position regarding women:
