The death of Pope Francis, the highest authority of the Roman Catholic Church, has sparked worldwide interest in learning ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

Vatican insiders and interlocutors said the pontiff wanted to avoid getting swept up in the polarizing politics that ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires made history with his election on March 13, 2013, becoming the first Argentine ...

Pope Francis was the world’s first Latin American pope and he particularly touched the heart of those from his continent.

OpEd: As the first pope from South America, Pope Francis advocated for the vulnerable and against the horrors of war.

The International Monetary Fund says the US and global economies will likely slow significantly in the wake of President ...

Pope Francis spent more than a decade as the head of the Church, but while growing up in Argentina he had a very different job ...

A mass was held at St. Joseph's Basilica in Flores, a district of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, to commemorate Pope ...

Distinct to Argentina, and emerging in the 1960s, the theology of the people shared liberation theology’s focus on social ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure. The Vatican has released the death certificate of the late ...