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

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, was the first Latin American and Jesuit pontiff. He was also the first to ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, never set foot in his homeland after becoming Pope ...

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.

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

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

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, died following recent hospitalizations, a day after delivering his final Easter ...