On the occasion of his election as pope in 2013, the German newspaper Die Welt reported that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as he then was, went to Frankfurt in 1986 where he began work on a postgraduate student on a dissertation, taking as his subject the works of the German theologian Romano Guardini (1885-1968). The Wikipedia page for the school, the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, notes that “In 1986, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since 13 March 2013 Pope Francis, spent a few months at the Sankt Georgen PTH to consult with professors on a dissertation project, however he has not further pursued the project.”
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