Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and ...

St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.

Remembering Pope Francis, the Catholic Church leader who broke with tradition 10:43. Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native Spanish with the Italian that he spoke as pope.

Communities across the globe, including those in Southern Colorado, spent the day Monday honoring the life of Pope ...

St. Francis of Assisi as a model Francis lived in the Vatican hotel instead of the Apostolic Palace, wore his old orthotic shoes and not the red loafers of the papacy, and rode in compact cars.

Bergoglio chose his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi who lived a life of humble service to the poor. Pope Francis was born in 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to an Italian ...

Francis chose his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the poor — a name he strove to embody throughout. And many of his teachings focused on the impoverished.

He was elected the 266th pope on March 13, 2013, on the fifth ballot. Francis' Firsts — The first pope from the Americas. — The first from the Jesuit order to be elected pope. — The first to take the ...

And those words came to me: the poor, the poor. Then, right away, thinking of the poor, I thought of Francis of Assisi. Then I thought of all the wars, as the votes were still being counted ...