In its quieter and more personal moments, the book offers an intimate picture and perspective of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the ...

Pope Francis discussed in a Jan. 30 audience with seminarians and formators how his mother put up quite a bit of resistance ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio (far left) training in the schoolyard, Don Bosco School, Buenos Aires, Argentina Credit: Rex And then, almost at the corner of our street, there was a peluquería ...

Originally intended to only be published after his death, it arrives instead at the start of an important jubilee year with ...

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 ...

Arriving at a perilous time for the Vatican, Pope Francis paints himself as one of the good guys in his book Hope ...

It’s the backstory that is so fascinating. As he recounts in Hope, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was born in 1936 in Argentina, the child of a large migrant Italian family, who grew up with a ...

ROME – “I like punctuality. It’s a virtue I have learnt to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth chapter of his autobiography, to be published on Jan 14 in 18 languages, adding ...

The experience of growing up “respectably poor” in a multi-ethnic Buenos Aires neighbourhood, for example, bred in the then Jorge Mario Bergoglio a respect for Jews and Muslims. It ...

Born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936, Francis was the first pope from Latin America. Since taking charge, Pope Francis has actively fought corruption. In 2021, he passed laws ...