Father Dennis Yesalonia was in Rome as the world waited to hear who would replace Pope Benedict XVI. He was staying at the Jesuit global headquarters when the white smoke announcing the papal ...

IT is to our misfortune that he has passed on this time. We are fortunate though that there is a documentary made more prominent after the death of the Pope. The docu is titled The Great Popes and ...

7.Here, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio attended the special "pro eligendo summo pontifice" — the official conclave — to elect a successor to John Paul II in April 2005.

The head Jesuit there was Fr Jorge Bergoglio (much later Pope Francis), whom I did not meet. I stayed with two younger Jesuits who were working in one of the city’s poorest barrios and were ...

Before becoming Pope, Francis led an unexpected life shaped by illness, family, and deep conviction.

Pope Francis was the first pope of the Americas, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina in 1936 to Italian immigrants. He was a chemical technician but decided to enter the priesthood. He was ...

Born in Argentina in 1936, Jorge Mario Bergoglio took over the papacy in 2013 after Benedict XVI stood down. At the time the Jesuit Archbishop of Buenos Aires, he was the first pope from the Americas, ...

Features: Easter reflection – the failure of the Cross The failure of the enterprise of salvation was already present, in a fragmented and less intense way, in the story of the exodus from Egypt ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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 ...