Although he had a conservative reputation in his earlier years, Pope Francis used his role as a world religious leader to ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...

The Roman Catholic leader “built bridges on the foundation of relationships” with Protestant ministers in Argentina.

Pope Francis, who died Monday aged 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of underdogs who forged a ...

Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, who worked to instill progressive influences on the ...

People stand next to a photograph of Pope Francis placed at Saint Anthony Catholic church in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, April ...

Argentines, fresh from holding Easter family gatherings around the parrilla barbecue, woke on Monday to the sad news that ...

Pope Francis — the first pontiff from the Americas who clashed with traditional Catholics, but hailed as a reformer by progressives — died on Monday, a day after Easter, at age 88. The pope had been ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

Francis' death comes one day after the pope, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a respiratory ...

The beloved pontiff, who died on Monday at 88 following a lengthy battle of double pneumonia, made changes to his funeral rites last year that underscore his humility while ditching the ...