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In March 2013, shortly after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina (now Pope Francis) was selected to succeed the retiring Pope Benedict XVI as Pope of the Catholic Church, a transcript purporting to document an unaired interview between then-Cardinal Bergoglio and an American journalist was circulated on the Internet: The transcript was originally posted to the web site of the UK's Diocese of Salford, which introduced it with the following statement: Although he was not named anywhere on the Diocese of Salford web site or in the transcript (which simply referred to a reporter), the mention of an atheist American journalist who supposedly conducted the interview was clearly intended to reference Chris Matthews of MSNBC, who (like the interviewer in the transcript) attended La Salle College High School and College of the Holy Cross. However, multiple pieces of evidence document that the transcript was nothing more than a prank, phony documentation of an interview that never took place:
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