VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a ...

Pope Francis places a red biretta on the head of new Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe, a British Dominican and theologian, during a ...

The former Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been diagnosed with a polymicrobial respiratory disease, for which he is being given antibiotics as various bacteria, viruses ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The worldwide spiritual leader of Catholics was elected by the College of ...

It was Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was elected as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. He took the name Pope Francis, making history as the first Latin American pontiff.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa 21-24, 68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope Francis, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an ...

“Now I apologize and ask the master to continue the reading due to difficulty in breathing,” said Jorge Mario Bergoglio before a crowd featuring numerous troops and police officers from ...

In presenting the award to the apostolic nuncio to the United States, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the White House noted that Jorge Bergoglio “for decades served the voiceless and vulnerable ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...