From meetings with Diego Maradona to the passion for his beloved Buenos Aires club, San Lorenzo, Pope Francis was an avid soccer fan.

The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager, packed the cathedral ...

Soccer matches in Italy were postponed after the death of Pope Francis and the Buenos Aires club that the Argentine pontiff ...

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

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, ...