VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name honors St. Francis of Assisi, and the first Jesuit – a Catholic religious ...

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic ...

Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a ... of the medieval saint. Defined against the bourgeoisie ...