On this week’s episode of “,” Ashley and Zac are joined by America magazine’s editor in chief, Sam Sawyer, S.J., and America ...

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

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

If you're eager to get up close and personal with Pope Francis, Amazon has got you covered with the autobiography Hope, where ...

More than two months before he died, Pope Francis reflected on death and old age in a preface for an upcoming book — ahead of ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, was the first Latin American and Jesuit pontiff. He was also the first to ...

He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and ...

Not only was Pope Francis the the first Jesuit pope, but he was the first pope from the Americas. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was the the 266th pope of the ...

For the Catholic Church’s new leader, cardinals could pick a reformist or someone who can heal rifts.

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.

Jack Krasula, admirer of the late pontiff, treasures a signed magazine cover and a letter outlining Francis' fundamental philosophy ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...