BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina’s Senate passed a law legalizing elective abortion in Pope Francis' homeland early Wednesday after a marathon 12-hour session, a victory for the women’s ...

Argentine street artist Martín Ron completed a 164-foot mural of Pope Francis in La Plata, marking the final piece in his ...

Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday. At such a critical moment in US ...

The Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor has died in Buenos Aires at age 98. Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri died Monday in the Argentine capital, where his funeral was being ...

ROME — Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at age 98, the Vatican said Wednesday.. Dri, a Capuchin friar ...

Pope Francis has been called the "people's" pope, a "maverick" pope and the "outsider" pope. He could also be called the fútbol pope. The soccer world has been paying tribute to the late pontiff ...

Pope Francis was often called the "pope of the poor." Inspired by the Jesuit vision of poverty and the movement of priests working in shantytowns, he regularly visited some of the most deprived ...

Bergoglio, 76, the cardinal from Buenos Aires, Argentina, from now on to be known as Pope Francis, is the first pope ever from the Americas and the first Jesuit pope.

Pope Francis meets with former Cuban President Fidel Castro at Castro's resident in Havana, Sept. 20, 2015. The pope gave Castro a book that the Argentine-born Jesuit wrote.

March 13, 2013— -- The new leader of the Catholic Church is the Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio who has taken the name of Pope Francis. Bergoglio, 76, is a Jesuit from Buenos Aires ...

March 13, 2013— -- There's been some excited chatter that the new pope, Pope Francis of Argentina (formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio), has made history as the first-ever non-European pope.