Vatican insiders and interlocutors said the pontiff wanted to avoid getting swept up in the polarizing politics that ...

Francis never gave an explicit answer for not returning as pontiff to his native country, but some experts say he worried ...

Argentina-born Pope Francis, who died on Monday, is being honoured at his local hometown soccer club in Buenos Aires, San ...

Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy, and that left many of the faithful in his homeland ...

Distinct to Argentina, and emerging in the 1960s, the theology of the people shared liberation theology’s focus on social ...

Grief-stricken Argentines massed at Buenos Aires Cathedral and across the city Monday (Tuday Manila time) to collectively ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Bells tolled in churches in his native Argentina as news spread around the world after the ...

Amid the extreme political polarization in his home country, the Pope found himself at odds with nearly every President.

Argentina's football association postponed all fixtures on Monday to mourn Pope Francis, an ardent fan of the game and ...

A faithful holds a portrait of late Pope Francis at the Basílica de San José de Flores, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, ...

VATICAN CITY — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

Though Pope Francis never returned to Argentina after becoming the head of the Roman Catholic Church, mourners in his ...