VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Pope Francis, controversial head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and LGBTQ ally, died early on Easter Monday from a cerebral hemorrhage.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina ...

Pope Francis was the first Latin American pope, born in Buenos Aires into an Italian immigrant family – a reformer determined to open up the church and reach out to marginalised communities.

A mass is on going in the Metropolitan Cathedral, where Pope Francis, as Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, used to perform mass, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 21, 2025. Pope Francis, the 266th ...

AP Photo/Markus Schreiber Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina ... interview that "Being homosexual is not a crime." March 29, 2023: Is admitted to Rome's ...

“He advocated for the voiceless and powerless.” Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936, as the eldest of five children of immigrant parents who fled ...