For a whole generation of Argentinian Catholics, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been the major inspiration for their pastoral work over the past three decades. Although many of these priests and lay ...

The Vatican Publishing House will release The Private Diary of Pope Francis, a book by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, on 24 November in five ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been elected as the new leader of the Catholic Church and who will now become Pope number 266 from a long line of Pope s that started with San Pedro. 115 cardinals from ...

The photograph in question is authentic but was shot in 2008, not 1998, by photographer Pablo Leguizamon for The Associated Press. At the time, Pope Francis was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

FILE - Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran announces the newly elected Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took the name of Pope Francis, elected on March 13, 2013, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has passed away after 12 years as the Papal leader. This video delves into the extraordinary life of the first South American Pope and examines the 1995-year ...

UPDATE: (3:25 p.m.): Here he is. His first words to the faithful were: "It seems to me that my brothers and cardinals have chosen one who is from far away, but here I am." UPDATE (3:21 p.m.): ...

A book titled "The Private Diary of Pope Francis" will be released by the Vatican Publishing House next month. The book by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will ...

NEW YORK — Journal entries kept by Pope Francis before and during his papacy will be published this fall for the first time. Image, an imprint of Penguin Random House Christian Publishing Group, ...

Thousands have packed into St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican today to pay their last respects to the late Pope Francis. As expected, there are luminaries, political figures, and no shortage of royals ...