Pope Francis, who led the Catholic Church for just over 12 years as its first Latin American pontiff, has died at age 88.

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died today. Argentinian, he was the first pontiff from the American continent. Before him, no one else had been elected head of the universal Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died on Easter Monday. Bells tolled in church ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.

Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

“For Pope Francis, it was always to extend the arms of the church to embrace all people, not to exclude anyone,” said ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis had died at the age of 88, a senior Vatican official has announced. History's first Latin American pontiff ...

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...