COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s recent nod to the late Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, the controversial Father General of his ...

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Bergoglio worked as a chemist. His own personal formula is simplicity. He still wears the plain silver cross he wore as the ...

A U.S. priest recently called for Pope Francis to be killed and likened him to the devil, prompting a Christian organization ...

The day of Pope Francis’ life-changing experience also happened to be the day the Church celebrates the feast of St. Matthew, ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been elected the new pope and will now be known as Pope Francis. Bergoglio, 76, was "runner-up" last time the College of Cardinals ...

March 13, 2013 Bergoglio is elected the 266th pope by ... the Sistine Chapel just after 7 p.m. local time. He takes the name Francis and appears on the balcony at St. Peter’s to greet the ...

Michael W. Higgins is the Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto’s St.

Since becoming pope in 2013, Francis (the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio) has been shaking up the management of one of the world’s largest bureaucracies: the Roman Catholic Church. That earned him ...

New appeal at Angelus recalling Ukraine, Palestine, Israel and Myanmar and other countries at war. In the commentary on the ...

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central ... XVI shakes hands with archbishop of Buenos Aires, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio during their 2007 meeting at the Vatican. ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope on March 13, 2013. He is the 266th pontiff and the first from Latin America, as well as the first to take the name Francis.