Although he never visited Argentina, Francis returned to South America when he visited Brazil in the first months of his ...

Despite early enthusiasm after he was elected in 2013, many Argentines came to see the Pope as a political participant as ...

Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy. That left many of the faithful in his homeland feeling ...

The death of Pope Francis, the highest authority of the Roman Catholic Church, has sparked worldwide interest in learning ...

Pope Francis' life journey, from a humble childhood in Buenos Aires to becoming the first Latin American pontiff, shaped his ...

Argentina-born Pope Francis, who died on Monday, is being honoured at his local hometown soccer club in Buenos Aires, San ...

Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than ... and steadily rose through the ranks of the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina before being appointed Archbishop of Buenos Aires ...

Pope Francis was the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants.