The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

On April 21, 1967, Greece woke up to a military junta taking over power. The colonels at the head of this brutal regime ended up putting the country in shackles for seven years.

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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. “At 7:35 ...

Africa Mourns Death of Pope FrancisTributes are flowing in after the death of Pope Francis, who died following a period of illness, on Monday, April 21. The Pope was admitted to the hospital in ...

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

Gabriel Winant is an Associate Professor of History and the College.

In a dramatic turn of events in Myanmar’s civil war, the strategic town of Lashio, captured last year by the Myanmar National ...

Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the Philippines and across Rome as news spread around the world.

Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement, which was read out by Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican ...

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

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...