Bergoglio, observers say, has not been shy about energetically taking on the president or her predecessor and late husband, Néstor Kirchner.

Where Bergoglio Buried His Communist Mentor. I visited her grave at Santa Cruz church in Buenos Aires. by George Neumayr. August 28, 2019, 12:05 AM ...

The Bergoglio family in Buenos Aires, Argentina. AP. Maria Elena’s daughter and Francis’ niece, Cristina Bergoglio, a famous artist based in Madrid, Spain, confessed in a 2014 interview that ...

Known until Wednesday as Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old is known as a humble man who denied himself the luxuries that previous Buenos Aires cardinals enjoyed.

By then, Bergoglio already was making a great ascendancy among the city’s clergy — among the youngest above all. ‘El Jesuita,’ biography on new Pope Francis written by Sergio Rubin.

Bergoglio’s legacy as cardinal includes his efforts to repair the reputation of a church that lost many followers by failing to openly challenge Argentina’s murderous 1976-83 dictatorship.

Argentina's cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis I appears on the balcony of St Peter's... [+] Basilica's after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13 ...

Bergoglio said Mass in La Rioja that day, calling Angelelli a "martyr" during the first official church homage to him. The so-called "Saint Patricks' Massacre" was another notorious case, ...

Cardinal Bergoglio is known as a simple, humble person who eschewed the pomp of his high office in the church. Until now, he has lived in a simple apartment and cooked his own meals.

BUENOS AIRES — When a shout of “Habemus papam!” — Latin for “We have a pope!” — rang out onscreen, viewers at a theater in the Argentine capital erupted in a standing ovation ...

Born in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936, Bergoglio was raised in a struggling middle-class home of a railroad worker and a homemaker. He was ordained a priest in 1969, and his ascent toward higher ...

‘Team Bergoglio’ In his book “The Great Reformer,” Francis’ biographer Austen Ivereigh described the 2013 conclave and how Nichols’ predecessor, Murphy-O’Connor, and other reform ...