The first Latin American pope, known for speaking out against social injustice, leaves behind a complicated legacy.

Maria Teresa Delgado holds a portrait of the late Pope Francis during Mass at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he ...

The faithful in Pope Francis' hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager, packed the cathedral where ...

Pope Francis understood the power of a simple touch. Some of the most iconic moments of his papacy were those when he ...

Pope Francis was the first pope from the New World, born and raised in Argentina, he said he wanted "a poorer Church" and one that would "include the excluded." ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Upon his election to the papacy, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to hail from Latin America. His impact, though, ...

The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager, packed the cathedral where ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

and attended the Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II in the Argentine National Church in Rome. In his homily, the Holy Father emphasized the importance of the Virgin Mary for Argentina in her ...

Meding identified the facilitators of Nazi exfiltration to Argentina in his book La Ruta de los nazis en tiempos de Perón ("The Route of the Nazis in Peron's Time") as the Catholic Church and the ...