Before he became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the archbishop of his hometown Buenos Aires. On April 26, ...

Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday, holding a massive open-air mass in front of the cathedral where he ...

In the poor Zabaleta district of Buenos Aires, amidst precarious houses and narrow alleys, María Ayala walks the same streets ...

With songs, dancing, tears and prayers, mourners in Buenos Aires marked the burial of native son Pope Francis on Saturday. As ...

Pope Francis’ beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, has celebrated a Mass dedicated to its most famous ...

FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience ... shows the Bergoglio family as they pose for a ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff in the Roman Catholic Church, died at 88 years old after a stroke led to heart failure, ...

Crowds of Catholic faithful gathered in Buenos Aires to bid farewell to Pope Francis as his funeral was held in the Vatican ...

Francis joined the Jesuit community in 1958 and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1969. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was made a cardinal in 2001 under Pope John Paul II.

Pope Francis had died at the age of 88 ... May 20, 1992: Named auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and in 1998 succeeds Cardinal ...