Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period that saw Argentina’s wealth gap grow. At the same time, so did the shantytowns ...

who will retire later this year after succeeding Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when the latter became Pope Francis in 2013. Fernández shall not be seeking reelection and thus will complete his ...

was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires. The so-called “People’s Pope” briefly worked as a nightclub bouncer before becoming a Jesuit priest and later Archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Relations between the Vatican and Father Gutiérrez thawed somewhat after his fellow Latin American, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became Pope. Father Gutiérrez praised Pope Francis for speaking about ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

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Migrants are needed in Italy because Italians are not having enough children, Pope Francis said Monday. "Today many countries ...

However, the real-life selection of the current Pope was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated drama The Two Popes. The ...

In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of the Jesuits, Argentina was a country where tensions between Marxists, moneyed power and the ...

“It is the truth on which Jorge Mario Bergoglio has staked his whole life and continues to spend it passionately as bishop of Rome, pastor of the universal Church,” the archbishop adde ...