The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.

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Across Argentina, many people flocked to churches to mourn Pope Francis. Some recalled personal encounters before he became pontiff.

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Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, died following recent hospitalizations, a day after delivering his final Easter ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic ...

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from ...

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, has died. The church’s 266th leader, the 88-year-old pontiff died Monday ...

After giving up the job of provincial, he served as a parish priest in San Miguel, received a doctorate in Germany and then ... Francis’ personal stamp on the ancient office was immediately ...

Former Archbishop of Buenos Aires sought to bring ‘common touch’ and modernising influence to Vatican, speaking passionately ...

The decision by Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to reject the lavish red slippers of his office was widely ...

Bergoglio spent the 1980s serving as a seminary teacher in San Miguel and as rector of the Colegio Maximo de San Jose before departing for Germany in ... Curia bureaucracy, stamp out financial ...