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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome Saturday after a Vatican funeral for the "pope among the people" attended by hundreds ...

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 ...

Jorge Bergoglio enters history as the first American Pope. During his time heading the Catholic Church, he reformed Vatican ...

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 ...