Pope Francis' Family Members Die In Argentina Fatal Car Crash

ROME - A car crash in Argentina killed three members of Pope Francis’ extended family on Tuesday: including his 8-month old and 2-year old grand-nephews and seriously injured another, police said. A truck struck a car driven by the pope’s nephew Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio on a highway in Cordoba at about
12:30 a.m. Cordoba police spokeswoman Carina Ferreyra said.
Emanuel Bergoglio’s sons — Jose Bergoglio, 8 months, and Antonio Bergoglio, 2 — and his wife and the boys’ mother, Valeria Carmona, 36, died, police said.

The pope’s nephew, Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio, was receiving treatment at Cordoba’s Pasteur de Villa Maria hospital. Details on his condition were not immediately available. The news came a day after the 77-year-old pope joked that he might die soon or follow in Benedict XVI's footsteps and resign the papacy. When asked Monday about his immense popularity, Francis said "this will last a short time, two or three years, and then to the house of the Father."