Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

In 2015, with the eyes of the world on the United States for the historic visit of Pope Francis, Wyoming Valley native Bob ...

Two days later, I read in the international edition of The New York Times that he was living on one lung. The spiritual leader who was striving to save the whole world was himself ailing. But I ...

Tired of waiting for a government that has turned its back on them, millions of people suffering from hunger, homelessness ...

The Cuban-American believes that silence in the face of this situation “is not neutrality or ignorance, it is complicity and ...

Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the ...

Cuba’s communist dictatorship is broke and seems to have run out of suckers who might lend it more. This month we learned ...

Francis even changed the church’s stance on the death penalty, calling it “inadmissible.” Still, the pope’s legacy took a hit ...

A Shepherd for the Poor and Humble Beginnings Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 to Italian-immigrant parents in Argentina, Pope Francis’s life has been marked by simplicity and solidarity with the ...

Following the announcement his passing away on Easter Monday, Vatican Media offers an overview of the highlights of Pope ...