Pope calls Argentinian rape victim with words of comfort She said she would "do everything possible" to travel to Rome to meet the Pope in person. "He said he would receive me," said Ms Pereyra, who comes from the city of Rio Segundo, about 450 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. Aside from rejecting much of the pomp and splendour of the papal office, Pope Francis has struck a relaxed, informal style and established a reputation for making personal phone calls to people who have written to him. Last week he called an Italian teenager who had written him a letter. Stefano Cabizza, 19, an information technology student from near Padua in northern Italy, was stunned to have the leader of the world's 1.2bn Catholics phone him up for a chat. Five days after his election, the Pope called his local news kiosk in Buenos Aires to ask the owners to cancel his newspaper subscription. He also called his shoemaker, telling him not to start making the soft red loafers favoured by Benedict XVI but to continue producing his favourite but very ordinary black leather shoes. On Monday he called the mother of an Italian petrol station owner who was shot dead in a robbery in June. The calls have become so frequent that Corriere della Sera, one of Italy's leading newspapers, recently ran a humorous front page article containing advice for people who find the Pope on the other end of the line. Resist the temptation to be too informal, wrote Beppe Severgnini, a noted author and humorist. "Don't call him "Franci" or "Cecco" (a diminutive of Francesco). But don't call him "Magnifico" or "Megagalattico" either." Avoid talking about the scandals that have shaken the Vatican in recent years, but mention his predecessor, 86-year-old Benedict, whom Francis often fondly refers to, the paper said. Don't be afraid to just be normal. If he had wanted to be bored, he would have called a government minister.