Pope Francis challenged tradition to open the Church to today’s world, sparking fierce backlash from conservatives over ...

Bishop Joseph Strickland, the outspoken Texas cleric removed from his post by Pope Francis last year, responded to the pontiff's death Monday with a message of prayer and spiritual solidarity, calling ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was 88. Francis had served as pope for 12 eventful years, ...

Francis in 2021 signed a decree limiting the use of the Latin Mass, reversing a more ... In a rare move in 2023, Francis ousted US Bishop Joseph Strickland, one of his fiercest enemies, who ...

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The first pope from the Americas was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936. He was chosen ...

The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.