Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 ...

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

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

Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago in a letter published this week in the archdiocesan newspaper urged Catholics to stand while receiving holy Communion and not make gestures ...

Francis himself, even while he was still Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, continued along the Catholic Church’s path when it came to Jews. He established a close friendship with local Buenos ...

But, in a surprise, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit, was in second place the whole time. Most accounts of the conclave have said retired Milan archbishop Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini was ...

Cardinal Mario Zenari spoke with Vatican News hours after rebels entered the capital of Damascus, which Assad was reported to have fled sometime on Dec. 8, after being absent from the public eye ...

He was appointed auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires in 2010 to serve as an aide to the then archbishop, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who went on to become Pope Francis. In 2013 Pope Francis appointed ...

Cardinal Bokalic served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 2010 to 2013, when Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, led the archdiocese. He told journalists Dec. 6 that ...