The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, ...

Pope Francis was history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died of stroke and heart failure, the Vatican ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...

Pope Francis brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000-year-old institution that had seen its influence wane during the ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Francis passed away after leading the Roman Catholic Church for 12 years ... restricted the use of the old Latin Mass dear to traditionalists, opened influential meetings of bishops to ...

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern ...

He was 88 years old. "Dearest brothers and sisters ... custodes," which restricted the celebration of the traditional Latin mass in an attempt to squash increasingly separatist conservative ...