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 ...

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 ...

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

Pope Francis has ruffled the feathers of some religious leaders in the United States by saying that all religions provide a ...

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

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Indonesia on Friday after celebrating Mass before an overflow ...

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

Pope Francis sent a video message for the first day of the 2024 International Eucharistic Congress, taking place in Quito, ...

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