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

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 ...

The pope, who pushed for a less opaque Vatican and connected to common and marginalised people’s concerns, dies aged 88.

Francis made history as the first pope from outside Europe in over 1,300 years when he was chosen to succeed the retiring ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

In the annals of papal history, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has died at the age of 88, will be remembered principally as the self-proclaimed pope “from the ends of the Earth”. Pope Francis was the ...

Take a closer look at some of the personal reflections and experiences of Black civilians, servicemen and women on VE Day, ...

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

Pope Francis reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in an Easter Sunday message read aloud by an aide as the ...

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

A weakened Pope Francis, still recovering after suffering a bout of double pneumonia, delivered the traditional Urbi et Orbi ...