Francis: Traditional Pope from Latin America who changed Catholic Church. 1w. His ascension to the papacy heralded many firsts. Francis was the first Pope from the Americas or the Southern Hemisphere.

As archbishop of Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who would take the name Francis when he became pope in 2013, came up within the Latin American bishops’ conference, known as CELAM.

The movement, which originated among Catholics in Latin America, approaches Church teachings through a Marxist framework.

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Several months after he assumed leadership of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made his first trip overseas. It was back home to Latin America, where the Argentine pontiff ...

A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the global Catholic population. The election of the Argentinian Pope Francis in 2013 brought fresh hope for a new ...

“It is a nostalgic disease ,” he said in 2023 when discussing the traditional Mass.

RVA Latino Festival returns to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, featuring authentic food, music and cultural celebrations from ...

In the nearly 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, most popes have come from Europe, even though there are countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa with significant Catholic ...

Catholic bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean have issued a historic joint appeal urging urgent and ...

Latin American bishops began to implement the teachings of the modernizing Second Vatican Council right after the council in the early 1960s. And as a result, “we try to be a church that is a ...