A missionary nun from Co Cavan was among those who cared for Pope Francis in his earliest days in Argentina. The Bergoglio family, who lived in Buenos Aires, called on the religious order the Little ...

Drawing on Latin American theology that emphasizes collaboration, developed in response to continued struggles with ...

Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the ...

Francis never gave an explicit answer for not returning as pontiff to his native country, but some experts say he worried ...

Just a few blocks from his childhood home, on Monday evening, the Basilica de San José de Flores in Buenos Aires was packed ...

The death of Pope Francis, the highest authority of the Roman Catholic Church, has sparked worldwide interest in learning ...

During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, ...

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

His papacy set many new precedents for the church, and his successor will be chosen from a group that he himself quietly ...

Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy. That left many of the faithful in his homeland feeling ...

The death of Pope Francis, the highest authority in the Roman Catholic Church, has sparked global interest in learning more ...

Secularism and the rise of evangelical congregations threaten the Catholic Church’s dominance in the region.