The pope had just bungled a big abuse case in Chile and I, like many in the Vatican press corps, reported the scandal during ...

Let’s begin with the obvious: the Pope has better security than a Bond villain. But what’s perhaps less known—and infinitely ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, never set foot in his homeland after becoming Pope Francis in 2013. That left ...

Pope Francis led Catholics around the world for a dozen years, and for some younger adults he is the pope they thought of as their own - concerned about the environment, the poor and peace. NPR ...

Before his death, Pope Francis greeted the Easter crowd in Vatican City inside an all-electric Mercedes-Benz popemobile.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — (AP) — The faithful in Pope Francis' hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a ...

You wouldn’t have to go back further than the 20th century, however, to find the oldest pope to ever serve. Pope Leo XIII, who ascended to the papacy in 1878, was 93 upon his death in 1903.

Though Pope Francis famously wrote of love and mercy, what he may have inspired most was a sense of hope — and, as he told 60 ...

"Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis," Cardinal Kevin Farrell ...

COMMENTARY: April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the election as pope of one of the most consequential ecclesial figures of ...

Let’s not beat around the bush. The Mercedes-Benz G-Class, G-Wagon or Geländewagen – call it what you want – is probably the most iconic and instantly recognisable SUV in the world.

Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, takes a long look – 426 pages – at how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together from their meeting as teenagers until John’s death.