Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

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

Vatican City, 21 Apr: Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives over climate change and ...