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

They did not have to point out the life-size cardboard cutout of Pope Francis in the hallway. Jesuit Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is the first pope to take Francis as his papal name and he has ...

In the new THR feature The Watchers, a group of Catholic Church experts come together to break down what’s actually going on in the new Ralph Fiennes drama.

Relations between the Vatican and Father Gutiérrez thawed somewhat after his fellow Latin American, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became Pope. Father Gutiérrez praised Pope Francis for speaking about ...

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 ...

In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of the Jesuits, Argentina was a country where tensions between Marxists, moneyed power and the ...

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

In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of the Jesuits, Argentina was a country where tensions between Marxists, moneyed power and the military ...

The pope, whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he is descended from Italian immigrants to Argentina, defined migrants ...

allowing America’s Rome correspondent Gerard O’Connell to recreate the movement toward Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Account of the Conclave That ...

The diocesan tribunal will conclude its inquiry into the life, virtues, and holiness of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, with a ceremony on Nov. 14 in Rome.