Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

Mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main aisle of St. Peter's Basilica to pay their last ...

Artificial intelligence was struggling on Wednesday to forecast the outcome of the notoriously secretive and unpredictable ...

Not only was Pope Francis the the first Jesuit pope, but he was the first pope from the Americas. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was the the 266th pope of the ...

His papacy set many new precedents for the church, and his successor will be chosen from a group that he himself quietly transformed.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, aged 88. Francis had been admitted to hospital earlier this year with double pneumonia.

The April 21 death of Pope Francis triggered a period of mourning in the Catholic Church, but also kick-started the race for his successor.

Here are some important dates in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis in 2013 and died on Monday.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, ...

Currently, 135 cardinals are aged under 80 and thus eligible under Church law to enter a conclave to elect a pope after ...

Some of the top candidates, ranked by Italian Vatican watcher Gaetano Masciullo and Vaticanists Edward Pentin and Diane ...

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