In a statement on his death, Gomez recalled how Francis had shown his "spiritual closeness" to Los Angeles Catholics during ...

Archbishop José H. Gomez joined Catholics in Los Angeles and around the world Monday in mourning Pope Francis, who died at ...

Pope Francis’s gestures of openness toward the gay community have led to a more capacious definition and understanding of ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five ...

Pope Francis called for "a church for the poor," a church that would reach out to what he called the "peripheries." He called ...