The first non-European pontiff in centuries pioneered change but was not the radical liberal of conservative imaginings ...

Stripping himself of the Star of David that marked him as a Jew, he went underground with his family, living by his wits and ...

Walter Frankenstein, who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin with his wife and infant children, has died. He was 100.

This opposition was driven in the main by deep-rooted distaste for the direction in which the Argentinian Pope was taking the ...

Prime Minister King promised a trade treaty with the U.S., passing the 1935 Reciprocal Trade Agreement. In 1936, his ...

Like Benedict XVI, his German predecessor ... Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17 1936 in the blue-collar neighbourhood of Flores in Buenos Aires to an Italian immigrant father ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

Roy was born on Dec. 23, 1936, in Penn Run ... His service included tours in Korea, Vietnam, Greenland, and Germany, and his dedication earned him numerous awards, including the Bronze Star ...

Rest in peace,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed “great sorrow” and described Pope Francis as a man “guided by humility and ...

Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was ...

Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor, died Monday. He was 88.

The pope's death comes one day after Francis, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a respiratory infection for weeks.