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

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 ...

And also, to suggest, "Please, stop. Negotiate." Prayer has been at the center of the pope's life since he was born Jorge ...

There was “fervor” in 2013, said Religion Unplugged, when Jorge Bergoglio became the first Pope from Latin America, but a decade later he now “generates divided opinions”. His uneasy ...

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 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.

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

The Pope's nephew, Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio, who was driving the car, was in a serious condition after the accident, officials said. The Argentine Catholic Church supports the country’s claim ...

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 ...

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 ...