Louis Prevost, one of Pope Leo XIV’s two older brothers, lives 70 miles south of Tampa, in Port Charlotte.

(AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) There is a reason popes dress in robes and cassocks ... adhering to the Jesuit vow of poverty, admired by many who believed it conveyed a sense of closeness with ...

Pope Leo XIV is just over a day into his pontificate and is already capturing style critics’ attention with his return to form on papal aesthetics. It ...

Before the white robes, the Vatican balcony waves, and the global headlines, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was just "Father Jorge," a serious young Jesuit priest walking the streets of San Miguel, Argentina.

This photograph would foreshadow the operative aesthetics of Francis, the pope of many firsts: The first Jesuit, the first ... vestments and elaborate velvet robes, red slippers, a gem-encrusted ...

His humility surely must have reminded the masses that Jesus said “the last shall be first and the first shall be last” ...

The first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff Pope Francis — born Jorge Mario Bergoglio — has died, aged 88. From the moment he stepped onto the Vatican balcony in his fresh white robes on March ...

During that time, two Jesuit priests under his supervision were ... In contrast to his immediate predecessors, Pope Francis eschewed ornate robes or luxurious clothing. His outfit rarely consisted ...

He was ordained a Jesuit priest on December 13 ... Francis appeared dressed simply in white robes and a metal pectoral cross but without the traditional papal ornaments, which would normally ...

This phrase is traditionally used to describe the Superior General of the Society of Jesus — the Jesuit order — because of the black robes worn by its members. Pope Francis was the first ...

Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi, 66, archbishop of Cordoba, Argentina, his red robes catching the soft late ... who spent a decade alongside the future pope as a Jesuit during their time in the ...