Pope Francis, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, was the first Latin-American pontiff in the history of the ...

He was born in Algeria to a family of Spanish immigrants who moved to France after Algerian independence ... three successive ...

Pope Francis’s death on Monday launches the centuries-old Catholic ritual of mourning and selecting a new leader of the ...

When the cardinals meet for the conclave, they gather in the Sistine Chapel. All cardinal electors must swear an oath of ...

He was created a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2001. When he was elected pope in 2013 — the first ever from the Americas — ...

In 12 years, Francis did not change everything, but he made a good start on many issues, moderating the authoritarian, orthodoxy-enforcing stance of his predecessors, the now-sainted John Paul II ...

The rite of the closing of the coffin took place at 8 p.m. local time Friday at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, officials said.