Pope Francis, who passed away at 88, was the only Argentine who didn’t watch Messi lift the World Cup in Qatar 2022. Honoring a vow from 1990, he stopped watching TV—even during Argentina’s biggest ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, never set foot in his homeland after becoming Pope Francis in 2013. That left many of the faithful in Argentina feeling puzzled and snubbed by the world’s ...

I have no plans to resign, says Pope Francis in new autobiography - Pontiff says Church ‘governed using the head and the ...

Pope Francis was asking for prayers after three of his relatives were killed in a traffic accident in Argentina on Tuesday, NBC News reported. Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said "the pope ...

Pope Francis on Friday received Argentina's new President Alberto Fernandez to the Vatican with his compatriot keen to address poverty and Buenos Aires' debts during private talks. "Your Holiness, ...

When Pope Francis was elected last March, even doctrinally dissident Roman Catholics like me cut the former Argentine cardinal some slack. “I want to believe,” I wrote then, “that his history as an ...

Pope Francis delivers his message during the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016. According to various media reports, ...

Pope Francis, the first-ever Jesuit and Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, was not a widely known figure on the international stage before emerging Wednesday evening on the balcony of ...

VATICAN CITY STATE - It’s not every day that a person around the world gets to meet the Pope. For four refugees living in Argentina - Okba, from Syria; Diana, from Colombia; Omar, from Venezuela; and ...

Pope Francis met Friday with the head of FIFA and members of the Italian and Argentine national rugby teams. Francis told the rugby players in town for a match on Saturday that theirs was a ''tough'' ...