Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos Aires in 1936. He was ordained a priest in 1969, and consecrated bishop in 1992. Since 1998 - Archbishop of Buenos Aires, since 2001 - cardinal. On March 13, 2013, he became the first Pope from the New World, taking the name Francis. Abraham Skorka was born in Buenos Aires in 1950. In 1979 he defended his doctorate in chemistry, rabbi, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary, emeritus professor at the University of Salamanca. Book “On Heavenly and Earthly Things,” first published in Buenos Aires in 2012, is compiled from dialogues between the future Pope and the rabbi, which they had for many years, discussing current theological and worldly problems.