Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 to Italian immigrants from Argentina, he is the first Latin American ... at about 4.30pm before mass starts. On Friday morning, Pope Francis will visit a group ...

Upon entering the stadium in a wheelchair, Pope Francis was immediately greeted by loud cheers and cries of “Viva Papa!” from ...

Informed by their own experiences of Mass ... Francis, both then shared their reflections with one another. What follows is their conversation. “I ask that you be vigilant,” writes Pope ...

Upon entering the stadium in a wheelchair, Pope Francis was immediately greeted by loud cheers and cries of “Viva Papa!” from a 60,000-strong crowd gathered for the Mass celebrated in Latin ...

Pope Francis emphasized the importance of the Catholic Church reaching marginalized groups while in Papua New Guinea, a ...

The estimated crowd of 600,000 people Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor is nearly half of the small Southeast Asian country's ...

Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. Personal Birth date: December 17, 1936 Birth place: Buenos Aires, Argentina Birth name: J ...

In Singapore, he is expected to meet members of the Society of Jesus, celebrate mass at ... before Pope Francis was elected in 2013 – the first pope to hail from a Latin American country.

Pope Francis is wrapping up his visit to Indonesia after celebrating Mass before an overflow crowd of 100,000.

Special Masses are celebrated in Catholic churches throughout the world marking the Season of Creation, Sept. 1 to Oct. 4, ...

Francis marveled at the city-state’s economic strength and sustainable development but warned against excluding “those on the ...