Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis, whose ailing health resulted in a 38-day hospital stay earlier this year, died Monday morning at age 88. “He taught ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis passed away today, and though Catholic priests are not allowed to marry nor have children, he is survived by several ...

Before he was elected Pope Francis in 2013, he was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires. In his youth, he worked as a janitor, a bouncer and eventually trained to work in a food science ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants. He credited his devout grandmother Rosa with teaching him how to pray. Weekends were ...

For a whole generation of Argentinian Catholics, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been the major inspiration for their pastoral work over the past three decades. Although many of these priests and lay ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentine who moved to liberalize the Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly expanding the role ...

Pope Francis appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica after having being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, 2013 UPDATED Like many other older churchmen, politicians ...

As world leaders gather in the Vatican today for the funeral mass of Pope Francis, among the will be just one member of Pope Francis's family, his nephew Mauro Bergoglio. Here, a guide to the late ...