"What we do know," said Brazilian-born theologian Leonardo Boff, "is that he's a North American with a Latin American soul." ...

The next leader of the Catholic Church is likely to face the same pressures and controversies that troubled Francis and his immediate predecessors. The future Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

Many aspects of Pope Francis’ remarkable program of ecclesial renewal weare prefigured in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s vision for ...