Pope Francis, the 266th Supreme Pontiff and the first Latin American and first Jesuit to lead the Roman Catholic Church, has died aged 88. He was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 in the ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. More than 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square April 26 to honor ...

The history of the Society of Jesus in America mirrors that of the nation: full of promise and contradiction; always being ...

Pope Francis, 88, died on Easter Monday on April 21, 2025. He was elected pope in 2013. When the pope dies, the College of Cardinals will meet in the weeks after his death to elect a new pope. Pope ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Catholic Church, has died at age 88. The Vatican will observe a nine-day mourning period, and the College of Cardinals will convene to elect a new pope. He served ...

A Catholic priest I knew once joked that Anglicans are just dressing up as Catholics but with bad theology. According to a ...

Pope Francis, who died Monday at the age of 88, was the first pope from the Americas and the first pope born outside of Europe in more than a thousand years. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires ...

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal ...