Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, ...

The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of ...

VATICAN CITY — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

More than 1.2 billion Roman Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis on Monday morning, hundreds of thousands of them right here in New Mexico.

Amid the extreme political polarization in his home country, the Pope found himself at odds with nearly every President.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...

The Vatican said in a statement later Monday that Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led to irreversible ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...