"He is a popular figure who made a certain symbolic rupture, by stripping away absolutely everything material." ...

text: Before he was pope or even Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis was known by his birth name Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936, he was the eldest ...

In his native Argentina, Pope Francis is known as a big soccer fan. VATICAN CITY, March 18, 2013 — -- Pope Francis has made fans around the world after his first few days as the new leader of ...

The pope was a young priest during his nation's "Dirty War." Journalist Alma Guillermoprieto talks with NPR's Scott Simon about Francis' controversial history and her article "Francis's Holy War." ...

Abortion will be legalized in Pope Francis' homeland up to the 14th week of pregnancy, and also will be legal after that time in cases of rape or danger to the mother’s life.

ROME — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday.

Francis's call, issued at the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro shortly after he became pope, struck a deep chord among a group of Argentine clerics dubbed the "curas villeros" or "slum priests." ...

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Questions like this have swirled around the Vatican since the little-known Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope in March 2013, and many Catholics are still not sure how to describe him.

The Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor has died in Buenos Aires at age 98. Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri died Monday in the Argentine capital, where his funeral was being ...