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

Migrants are needed in Italy because Italians are not having enough children, Pope Francis said Monday. "Today many countries ...

who will retire later this year after succeeding Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when the latter became Pope Francis in 2013. Fernández shall not be seeking reelection and thus will complete his ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio touches a baby after a 2011 Mass in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ASSOCIATED PRESS cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, right, gives the holy communion ...

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

A Peruvian priest who founded liberation theology, a movement advocating an active role for the Roman Catholic Church in ...

But at 88, Francis – born Jorge Mario Bergoglio – is now the oldest Pope in over a century and in increasingly frail health. Writing earlier this year in his memoir "Life: My Story Through ...

When Pope Francis was still known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he visited a psychoanalyst for six months at the age of 42 – a process that he said left him feeling spiritually "free". Therapy ...

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 ...

Former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio recently celebrated his one-year anniversary as Pope Francis. This collection of homilies and public addresses serves as a mission statement for this papacy.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a defiant social media post, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, an outspoken papal critic, announced Thursday (June 20) that he had been summoned to the Vatican to answer ...

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 ...