Here’s when coverage for Pope Leo’s papal inauguration is expected to start by U.S. time zones: Eastern Time: 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time: 12:00 a.m. (midnight) Alaska Time: 11:00 p.m. (Saturday, May 17) ...

Religious affairs expert Martin O’Brien reports from Rome on the prospects of the man chosen to lead the Catholic Church ...

Long before the papacy, even before his first steps toward priesthood, for Jorge Mario Bergoglio – the boy who would go on to become Pope Francis – there was his hometown sports club, ...

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Jorge Bergoglio signaled a break from the past when he became the first pope to go by Francis. Prevost’s choice — which the director of the Holy See called a “direct reference to Leo XIII ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 to Italian immigrant parents in Argentina, Francis made history as the first pope from the Americas, as well as the first Jesuit to hold the position.

For example, after Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s election in 2013, the announcement was: “Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Papam! Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Georgium ...

The name alone often speaks volumes. In choosing to reign as Francis, first of that name, Jorge Bergoglio signaled clearly the style of his pontificate, which aspired to the simplicity of the ...

Many consider him an heir of the late Jorge Bergoglio, though more conservative on issues such as sexual and gender diversity, and more traditional in style than the Argentine pope. His choice of ...

Long before the papacy, even before his first steps toward priesthood, for Jorge Mario Bergoglio – the boy who would go on to become Pope Francis – there was his hometown sports club ...

The two clerics met in South America, and when Francis needed to fill an important job at the Vatican, he knew where to turn. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Vatican City A few years ago, Pope ...

Like his predecessors Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Joseph Ratzinger and Karol Jozef Wojtyla, Robert Prevost took a new name overnight Thursday after he was chosen as the first American-born leader of ...