This chart shows how many U.S. Catholics viewed Pope Francis as a symbol of change in the direction of the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

They sit at the knotty place where history, the culture of consumption and the power of merch meet.

New paths and processes However, Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, likely would not have wanted the concept of “first ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the ...

Francis was more tolerant with another critic, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He excoriated the ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the Philippines and across Rome as news spread around the world.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern ...