Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, brought with him the heart of a pastor and the clarity of a reformer. From that first moment, the papacy took on a different posture.

FILE - This Jan. 13, 2007 file photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, then Pope Benedict XVI, left, shakes hands with the archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge ...

News Jorge Mario Bergoglio: A pope of paradox for a church in transition Published: Mar. 14, 2013, 3:05 a.m. By Religion News Service Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

Today, Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio officially became Pope Francis. Pope Francis was formally installed as head of the planet’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, promising great inroads on ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, the future pope was the son of Italian immigrants and one of five siblings. His father was an accountant for the railway, his mother a homemaker.

Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ordained a priest with the Jesuit religious order, which he would lead as Argentina’s provincial superior during the country’s murderous dictatorship that began in ...

Jesuit Jorge Bergoglio walks an austere path befitting St. Francis. March 13, 2013— -- Taking the name Francis, after the saint who ministered to the poor, Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

T he election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to supreme pontiff Wednesday marks a series of firsts for Catholicism: He’s the first South American pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first to bear the ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He will call himself Pope Francis I, CBS News reported.

Yet they also chose Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a humble man who lives simply and took the name Francis (also a first) that evokes the founder of another great religious order.