Pope Francis arrives for his annual Christmas visit to venerate a statue of the Virgin Mary near the Spanish Steps in Rome.

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

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

From the outset, it was a different papacy. The first Latin American Pope, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name ...

FILE - Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who chose the name of Pope Francis, waves to the crowd from the central balcony of ...