Pope Francis, like all Catholic priests, vowed to celibacy and thus was not married or had children. Here's what we know ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, made a lasting impression on these Arizonans who met him, knew him or ...

Pope Francis charmed the world with those poignant acts of love, humility and informality, starting with his first appearance ...

The Rev. Peter Short of St ... Francis after a journalist friend, Javier Cámara, authored the 2014 biography on the pontiff, "Aquel Francisco." Pope Francis sat with the two men to browse the ...

and the first pope to choose the name Francis because he loved St. Francis of Assisi. And of course, that characterized his entire papacy focusing on the marginalized, the poor, the peripheral ...

Details of the funeral are guided by an April 2024 updated version of the liturgical book for papal ... to take the name of Francis, which was after St. Francis of Assisi. As world leaders mourn ...

March 13, 2013: Elected 266th pope, the first from the Americas, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi. The process to select a new pope — called ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St.<a ...

If becoming the first Latin American and first Jesuit pope wasn’t enough, Francis was also the first to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi ... in a 2010 biography that, “I don’t ...