Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

Since becoming pope in 2013, Francis (the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio) has been shaking up the management of one of the world’s largest bureaucracies: the Roman Catholic Church. That earned him ...

The selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as new ... to meld the Catholic church's past with its present. Bergoglio, or Pope Francis, as he will now be known, is the first pope from ...

But at 88, Francis – born Jorge Mario Bergoglio – is now the oldest Pope in over a century and in increasingly frail health. Writing earlier this year in his memoir "Life: My Story Through ...

a philosopher at the University of Perugia and author of “The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s Intellectual Journey.” According to Pope Francis, when authority becomes separated ...

A prominent Italian theologian and archbishop has called Pope Francis’ new encyclical ... “It is the truth on which Jorge Mario Bergoglio has staked his whole life and continues to spend ...

We must tell this truth," Francis said while receiving the Scalabrinians in audience. The pope, whose birth name is Jorge ...

In many ways, the turbulence, shifts and swings of the Jesuits is also illustrative of Francis’s life. In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of ...

Pope Francis denounced clericalism and called ... The book is a compilation of a text published by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires in 2005 called Corruption ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

‘We must do something’: Pope offers Vatican refuge to Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s former leader, has been detained by the military since it overthrew her ...

The latest news, stories and features on Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic church who resides in Vatican City. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis has held the position since ...