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

Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the ...

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

Jorge Bergoglio was born in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, on December 17 ... Bergoglio led a humble and austere life, forgoing even the slightest of luxuries. His rejection of the trappings ...

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From his earliest years to his final days in the Vatican, see the remarkable life and journey of Pope Francis. Jesuit General Curia via Getty Born in December 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina ...

“He advocated for the voiceless and powerless.” Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936, as the eldest of five children of immigrant parents who fled ...