Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

who will retire later this year after succeeding Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when the latter became Pope Francis in 2013. Fernández shall not be seeking reelection and thus will complete his ...

Relations between the Vatican and Father Gutiérrez thawed somewhat after his fellow Latin American, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became Pope. Father Gutiérrez praised Pope Francis for speaking about ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

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However, the real-life selection of the current Pope was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated drama The Two Popes. The ...

The pope, whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he is descended from Italian immigrants to Argentina, defined migrants ...

In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of the Jesuits, Argentina was a country where tensions between Marxists, moneyed power and the ...

The diocesan tribunal will conclude its inquiry into the life, virtues, and holiness of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, with a ceremony on Nov. 14 in Rome.

In many ways, the turbulence, shifts and swings of the Jesuits is also illustrative of Francis’s life. In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of ...

allowing America’s Rome correspondent Gerard O’Connell to recreate the movement toward Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio in The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Account of the Conclave That ...