Signs of crisis were everywhere: declining Mass attendance, large-scale conversations with evangelical Christian groups. The ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was elected pope on March 13, 2013, he began ...

Pope Francis, the pontiff who challenged tradition, leaves the Catholic Church at a crossroad to choose his successor ...

The photograph in question is authentic but was shot in 2008, not 1998, by photographer Pablo Leguizamon for The Associated ...

Thousands gathered for a massive Mass outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires to remember the life and legacy ...

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Among the tens of thousands of mourners paying their respects before the coffin of Pope Francis late last week was Gianluigi ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His neighbors have fond recollections.

Before becoming the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis led an astonishing life, far from the gilded walls of the ...

Whatever Father Bergoglio might have been in the 1970s, Pope Francis was not. He spent half a century defending the oppressed ...

Archbishop Francisco Escalante Molina, third left, Auxiliary Bishop Andrea Lembo, fourth left, and other priests lay flowers ...

At age 16, Ana María Careaga was pregnant and kidnapped during the regime of terror. Her story is one Pope Francis never ...