Some of the defining images of the life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman ...

The decision by Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to reject the lavish red slippers of his office was widely ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

The first pope from the Americas, whose drive to modernize the Catholic Church divided opinion, has died in Rome aged 88.

With Pope Francis' passing, the Roman Catholic Church is focused on electing his replacement. Here's what that means.

This opposition was driven in the main by deep-rooted distaste for the direction in which the Argentinian Pope was taking the ...

The pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio - who has died aged 88 - was marked to a degree unknown in the modern history of the ...

But just outside town, on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River, conservative Catholicism is flourishing. Last year, the ...

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

Zelensky last met Francis in October, during a visit to the Vatican. The Ukrainian leader said the pair had discussed the ...

Pope Francis has died aged 88, the Vatican announced today. The Pontiff spent his final weeks in hospital with an infection ...