Readers can look to the past to discover more about the man who became the first truly American Pope.

Delivered just six weeks after Leo's election, it creates a broad picture of a new era unfolding in the Catholic Church.

If you read one book by Pope Franics ... The Church of Mercy features a collection of Pope Francis’s speeches, homilies, and papers presented during the first year of his papacy—all of ...

Scores of books by Francis, as well as about his life and papacy, portray the pope, who died on April 21, as compassionate and controversial, pastoral and provocative.

Were you to have asked Pope Francis to name his favorite book, ... He praised the book as “a prophecy” in one of his earliest papal homilies and recommended it to journalists in 2015: ...

Pope Francis, the pontiff whose ... 91, who presided over the funeral, lauded Francis in his homily as "a pope among the people, ... What is the Book of the Gospels?

His book “The Pope Who Quit” was optioned by HBO. ... The tensions within the Pope’s homilies, ... Pope Francis criticized Israel’s war tactics — in language that could be quite harsh.

Francis was a “pope among the people, with an open heart towards everyone,” Re said in his homily, which was delivered after the pope’s coffin was carried into the piazza outside St. Peter ...

Across many homilies, audiences and off-the-cuff reflections, throughout his papacy, Pope Francis offered such grandfatherly advice on marriage, family, youth, the elderly and other aspects of ...