Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ecologists, was the fiercest climate and environment advocate in the church ...

Catholic church asks police to investigate sales of Saint Carlo Acutis relics online The canonization for an Italian teenager who was set to become the first millennial saint has been postponed ...

Throughout his papacy, Francis was an outspoken advocate for the downtrodden. Shortly after he was elected in 2013 he said, “How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.” ...

Bergoglio is elected the 266th pope. He is the first Latin American and first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to take the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi.

Pope Francis was the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Italian immigrants.

When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis said he chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar who renounced his wealth to become "a man of peace, a man of ...

Pope Francis and the Bend church are both named for St. Francis of Assisi, one of the most venerated figures in Christianity, who lived a life of poverty and cared for the poor.

Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, seemed to embody not the church that existed but the church that wayward Catholics like me could admire. And that was no small feat.