Pope Francis passed away at the Vatican on April 21, after leading the Catholic faithful since March 2013. His election as ...

Pope Francis died Monday, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for ...

Pope Francis’s death on Monday launches the centuries-old Catholic ritual of mourning and selecting a new leader of the ...

He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 2001 by Pope John Paul II, whom he would later canonize ... "Francis is a man who has felt Jesus close to him in spite of his sins and wants others ...

He may have scandalized conservatives who wanted him to be more like John Paul II and Benedict XVI ... The cardinals had elected as pope a man who would change the style of being pope, attack ...

To certain traditional Catholic ears, the pontiff from Buenos Aires was cause for concern. To more worldly ears, he was cause ...

Later, he became the archbishop of Buenos Aires, and in 2001, Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal ... St. Francis, he said, was “the man of the poor. The man of peace.

Francis is the last sitting head of the Vatican to die in 20 years, since Pope John Paul II in 2005 ... The pope must be any baptized man, but the contenders are typically only among the cardinals ...

He would also be the youngest pope since John Paul II. He understands but does not speak ... it did indeed start to rain. Omella is a man after Pope Francis' own heart. Unassuming and good-natured ...

Pope Francis has died ... The 2005 conclave to elect John Paul II’s successor is widely reported to have been a two-horse race between Joseph Ratzinger – the man who would soon become Benedict ...