Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. This essay has been adapted ...

Senator Fernandez on clash with bishop: “I might turn him into Pope” The Cristina Fernandez administration renewed relations with the Catholic Church, since the naming of Cardinal Bergoglio ...

The Pope's got jokes. Because religion isn't drab and dour, because laughter humanises, and without humanity where would we ...

Such a welcome had not been seen in Europe by Pope Francis for a long time. In Ajaccio, Corsica, hundreds of thousands of ...

There were 18 men religious among the electors, comprising 15.5% of the voters. One of them, of course, was elected pope — the Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took the name Francis.

He was a friend of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires and made sure that he let the embassy gathering know who they should vote for. Bergoglio was duly elected as Pope Francis. Bergoglio ...

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio again blasted the Kirchner administration over poverty and social exclusion Primate Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio blasted the Argentine government saying “the social debt ...

Until the cardinal from Bogota showed him a video ... At the 2013 conclave, which elected the Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the successor to Benedict XVI, now Pope Francis, 115 cardinals ...

Pope Francis has approved new rites for his own funeral for when he dies to simplify rituals and be buried outside the Vatican.