With the publication of this autobiography, Pope Francis cements his monumental project of demystifying the papacy.

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world ...

Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as the first pope from Latin America. Francis, who was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 1936, is the first pope from Latin America. His latest book ...

There he has remained. Pope Francis, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as a teenager in Buenos Aires Credit: AP Pope Francis is fiercest when denouncing the “unhealthy backwardism” of those ...

It’s a virtue I have learnt to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth ... recreates the colourful world where the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up – a world that was a menagerie ...

Hope is a book that combines an account of Pope ... makes Francis so different from previous popes? It’s the backstory that is so fascinating. As he recounts in Hope, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin ... bred in the then Jorge Mario Bergoglio a respect for Jews and Muslims. It familiarised him with the ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” saying love is the force that compels people, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, to share their faith in God with ...

Pope Francis will hold the next few days of meetings in rooms at his Vatican residence while sick with bronchitis, the Vatican said Thursday. “Due to bronchitis, from which he is suffering at ...