Former Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone shares memories of some of Cardinal Bergoglio’s talks at pre-conclave meetings. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, then archbishop of Buenos Aires, arrives ...

A new book recounts the Holy Father’s efforts to spare those targeted in the 1970s by Argentina’s military dictatorship. ROME — Italian journalist Nello Scavo has released a book entitled Bergoglio’s ...

NBC News Vatican analyst and papal biographer George Weigel says Cardinal Bergoglio was the right choice, a man whose simplicity, austerity and gentleness can put the church on the road to a new ...

From 1964 to 1965 he taught literature and psychology at Immaculate Conception College in Santa Fé and in 1966 he taught the same subject at the Colegio del Salvatore in Buenos Aires. From 1967-70 he ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires after being made a cardinal in February 2001. [Photo: Osservatore Romano.] Listen Historians love to pinpoint moments that in retrospect come to be defined as ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name ...

In this file photo, Pope Francis greets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the retired pope’s residence after a consistory for the creation of five new cardinals at the Vatican June 28, 2017. (Credit: CNS ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentine who moved to liberalize the Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly expanding the role ...

Well into Paul Vallely's absorbing portrait of the show-stopping new pope, we see Jorge Bergoglio as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, presumably offering Communion to any and all takers in his ...

The elevation Wednesday of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the Roman Catholic Church’s 266th pope and the first from Latin America brought cheers across South America but also served as a ...

Bergoglio had reportedly finished second in the 2005 conclave that produced Benedict — who last month became the first pope to resign in 600 years. The speed with which he was elected pope this time ...