were energized by Francis's exhortation to Catholic youth in 2013 to "shake things up" in Latin America's shantytowns AFP Down a narrow street in Villa 31, the oldest of Buenos Aires's informal ...

Pope Francis' legacy will live on in the neighbourhood of Flores, at his beloved San Lorenzo football club and in the shantytowns he regularly visited.

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, attended San Lorenzo matches as a child with his Italian immigrant father and remained an unabashed fan throughout his life, paying monthly club membership ...

As archbishop, he prioritized a team of priests known as "curas villeros," who worked in Buenos Aires' shantytowns tackling vices such as poverty and drug addiction. "We want to tell you that we ...

Credit: AP/Natacha Pisarenko In Buenos Aires, he commuted by bus, walked barefoot through the city's sprawling shantytowns and exchanged soccer banter with parishioners. At the Vatican ...

Pope Francis' beloved football club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, celebrated a Mass late Wednesday dedicated to its most famous fan two days after his death, with Argentina still awash in ...

Down a narrow street in Villa 31, the oldest of Buenos Aires's informal settlements ... up" by taking the gospel to "favelas, slums and shantytowns," lives on in the ramshackle neighborhood ...