When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 12, he developed a crush on a girl called Amalia. Their parents disapproved, but Jorge went ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church since 2013, has died aged 88, the Vatican announced on Monday.

Two weeks after his surprise election as pontiff, Pope Francis carried out the Maundy Thursday ritual of washing and kissing ...

From the outset, it was a different papacy. The first Latin American Pope, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name ...

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

The pope had suffered various ailments in his 12-year papacy. He was released from the hospital on March 23, after five weeks ...

Pope Francis, the first non-European pontiff in nearly 1,300 years, has died, the Vatican has announced. He was 88.The announcement would have come as a ...