Pope Francis, who passed away at 88, was the only Argentine who didn’t watch Messi lift the World Cup in Qatar 2022. Honoring a vow from 1990, he stopped watching TV—even during Argentina’s biggest ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires on 17 December 1936, was elected Pope on 13 March 2013, becoming the first Jesuit and the first Latin American to occupy the throne of St Peter ...

Pope Francis was asking for prayers after three of his relatives were killed in a traffic accident in Argentina on Tuesday, NBC News reported. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said "the pope ...

When Pope Francis was elected last March, even doctrinally dissident Roman Catholics like me cut the former Argentine cardinal some slack. “I want to believe,” I wrote then, “that his history as an ...

Pope Francis on Friday received Argentina's new President Alberto Fernandez to the Vatican with his compatriot keen to address poverty and Buenos Aires' debts during private talks. "Your Holiness, ...

Pope Francis met Friday with the head of FIFA and members of the Italian and Argentine national rugby teams. Francis told the rugby players in town for a match on Saturday that theirs was a ''tough'' ...

Pope Francis delivers his message during the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016. According to various media reports, ...

Pope Francis, the first-ever Jesuit and Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, was not a widely known figure on the international stage before emerging Wednesday evening on the balcony of ...

VATICAN CITY STATE - It’s not every day that a person around the world gets to meet the Pope. For four refugees living in Argentina - Okba, from Syria; Diana, from Colombia; Omar, from Venezuela; and ...