Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 ...

At the age of 44, Pope Francis suffered from gangrene of the gallbladder, a serious complication that occurs when the tissue ...

Marcela was a sex worker in her late 40s who, like Francis, hailed from Argentina ... was named pope, Claudia had dashed to ...

ROME, Dec 15 — Pope Francis will visit Corsica, a stronghold of the Catholic faith, today, with locals hotly anticipating the ...

Pope Francis will on Saturday ... This year, Francis has selected five bishops from Latin America (Ecuador, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina), and two from Africa (Ivory Coast, Algeria) to become ...

AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that ...