The country of Zambia, in southeastern Africa, is twenty-eight times the size of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in area.

The new pope appears to be a big hit with visitors to the Vatican, yet he's not generating much headline news, despite his ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

By Kielce Gussie Commemorating 190 years of diplomatic relations between Colombia and the Holy See, the Pontifical Gregorian ...

Yes, there are at least four Jesuit cardinal-electors in the ... An American by birth, Prevost has deep missionary roots in Latin America, having served in Peru and even acquired Peruvian citizenship.

There, he directed his students to embrace teachings and practices that had been adopted from the Jesuits’ early missions in Latin America: an “option for the poor” expressed in manual labor ...

The death of Pope Francis marks the end of an era for the Catholic Church in Latin ... of Jesuits inclined toward Marxist theology, who sent him “to a very remote place, where his main mission ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff ... In 1958, he switched to the Jesuit order, attracted by its missionary tradition and militancy.

“For decades, he served the most vulnerable across Argentina and his mission of serving the poor never ... and in 2013 he became the first pontiff from Latin America and also the first Jesuit pope. He ...

He was also the first Jesuit to be elected to the throne of ... would help rejuvenate the Vatican and reinvigorate its holy mission. But within the Vatican bureaucracy some of Francis's attempts ...