The Latest Breaking News from Jorge Mario Bergoglio

Francis was the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European for more than 1,200 years

Former Archbishop of Buenos Aires sought to bring ‘common touch’ and modernising influence to Vatican, speaking passionately on the need to address modern concerns like the climate crisis as a moral imperative

Peruvian priest regarded as ‘the father of liberation theology’

Priest in Tuscany compares Francis unfavourably with Pope Benedict in New Year’s Eve address shared online

Three decades ago, when he was a parish priest in Argentina, the man named by Pope Francis to be the Catholic Church’s guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy wrote a short book about kissing and the sensations it evokes

Pope Francis has chosen a bishop from his Argentine homeland for one of the Vatican's most powerful positions — head of the watchdog office that ensures doctrinal orthodoxy

Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio first stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013, he has made no shortage of statements that attract attention. “Who am I to judge?” he famously said about gay priests. “Nowadays there is an economy that kills,” he once…

Pope Francis accused some of his critics Sunday of taking advantage of Pope Benedict XVI’s death to score ideological points in the latest salvo in the partisan divide of the Catholic Church

Pope Francis is honoring his northern Italian roots by celebrating a special Mass in his father’s hometown