Pope Francis, the Argentine-born leader of the Catholic Church, urged Rio Grande Mayor Martín Pérez Wednesday in a private ...

"Pray for me because my work is very fast-paced and my motorcycle is old and doesn't work well." Pope Francis often jokes ...

As one of the most powerful sources of information, Wikipedia alters people’s perceptions of a wide range of issues, such as ...

Today, the 8th Day of the Poor, Bergoglio dedicated his homily from St Peter's Basilica to the weak and excluded. In the ...

In the new THR feature The Watchers, a group of Catholic Church experts come together to break down what’s actually going on ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period that saw Argentina’s wealth gap grow. At the same time, so did the shantytowns ...

In November, the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and Caritas focuses on addressing poverty to mark VIII World Day of the Poor. Emphasizing the difference between charity and solidarity, they encouraged ...

After threatening to excommunicate two Peruvian laypeople suing a papal envoy, Pope Francis apparently met with the pair over ...

In essence, both suggested that due to irregularities in the 2013 resignation announcement of Pope Benedict XVI, Francis was ...

The Vatican's stance is extremely tough, uncompromising, and unyielding: priests who commit the crime of attacking the unity ...

In the early 1970s, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (later Pope Francis) was rising through the ranks of the Jesuits, Argentina was a country where tensions between Marxists, moneyed power and the ...

New head of Catholic Synod in Argentina decries larger lines at food aid centres and soup kitchens, warning there are "too ...