Here are some of the most defining images from the 88-year-old's life and papacy. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born in Buenos ...

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 - here is the process of events following the death of a pope and how a new pope is ...

History books, Hollywood movies and television food programs invariably tell us that Italy is wonderful, and reinforce an ...

In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, the forged diaries were an extraordinary hoax.

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the ...

Francis made his final public appearance on Easter Sunday. He appeared very frail and had delegated the celebration of the ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Pope Francis has regularly referred to Ukraine and its people as “martyred” ...