"He is a popular figure who made a certain symbolic rupture, by stripping away absolutely everything material." ...

text: Before he was pope or even Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis was known by his birth name Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 1936, he was the eldest ...

Pope Francis meets with former Cuban President Fidel Castro at Castro's resident in Havana, Sept. 20, 2015. The pope gave Castro a book that the Argentine-born Jesuit wrote.

The pope was a young priest during his nation's "Dirty War." Journalist Alma Guillermoprieto talks with NPR's Scott Simon about Francis' controversial history and her article "Francis's Holy War." ...

ROME — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday.

Abortion will be legalized in Pope Francis' homeland up to the 14th week of pregnancy, and also will be legal after that time in cases of rape or danger to the mother’s life.

Francis's call, issued at the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro shortly after he became pope, struck a deep chord among a group of Argentine clerics dubbed the "curas villeros" or "slum priests." ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed Javier Milei and reportedly agreed to visit Argentina. Leo's predecessor Francis was an Argentine who often clashed with Milei and never visited his home country during his ...

Childhood Favorites from Argentina Growing up in Flores, a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Pope Francis—born Jorge Mario Bergoglio—was, as he once joked, “a good Argentinian who ...