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

Migrants are needed in Italy because Italians are not having enough children, Pope Francis said Monday. "Today many countries ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, the real-life selection of the current Pope was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated drama The Two Popes. The ...

The selection of Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as new pope was a big surpise — on the final day his odds were as low as 33-1 on Paddy Power. But picking Bergoglio totally makes sense.

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 and Sin and a strongly-worded letter that Pope ...

The first thing new Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio will undoubtedly want to do is take this baby out for a night in Rome. Based on the Mercedes M-Class, built in 2012, with a tricked out bullet-proof ...

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 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 ...