Tamara Noga, a 29-year-old writer, said Bergoglio transformed her relationship with the Catholic Church. "My faith was in the neighborhood, in knowing the 'slum priests,' in passing by the chapel ...

While some married Protestant ministers had been ordained as Catholic priests after World War II, and Pope Paul VI opened the ...

Argentina's "slum priests," who have been taking the church's teachings to the poor since the 1960s, were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic ... with the message "poor church for ...

Priest Jesus Carides holds a portrait of the late Pope Francis as he gives a mass at the Caacupe Parrish in Buenos Aires on April 21, 2025. [AFP] Down a narrow street in Villa 31, the oldest of ...