After five ballots and just over a day, the 115 cardinal electors have selected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new successor to the Apostle Peter and head of the Catholic Church. He will assume ...

Barrio boys: Jorge Mario Bergoglio (left) with his brother Oscar in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the future pope was born in 1936. In 2013 Bergoglio became the first pope ever from the Americas - AP ...

For a whole generation of Argentinian Catholics, Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been the major inspiration for their pastoral work over the past three decades. Although many of these priests and lay ...

VATICAN CITY — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five ...

Pope Francis appears on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica after having being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, 2013 UPDATED Like many other older churchmen, politicians ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants. He credited his devout grandmother Rosa with teaching him how to pray. Weekends were ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children to ...

The election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to supreme pontiff Wednesday marks a series of firsts for Catholicism: He’s the first South American pope, the first Jesuit pope and the first to bear the name ...

Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio to Italian immigrants in Argentina on Dec. 17, 1936. His father Mario was an accountant with the railways and his mother Regina Sivori was a housewife who raised ...