On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

Liberals hoped he’d ordain women or allow gay marriage ... to figure out how to preach the gospel in the 21st century without just repeating 13th century formulas that nobody understands.

Jorge Bergoglio enters history as the first American Pope. During his time heading the Catholic Church, he reformed Vatican ...

Pope Francis, elected in 2013, chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian friar ... will be remembered for outreach to women, immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ people ...

Pope Francis charmed the world with those poignant acts of love, humility and informality, starting with his first appearance ...

“Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires to Italian immigrant parents, he chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century Italian ... and all men and women of goodwill ...

He became the first pope to take the name Francis after Saint Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century mystic who renounced his ...

Boomers, Millennials, Gen Z – who invented these terms? What do they mean? And how do they make a difference to politics?

So he’s the first pope ever to take the name Francis, who’s a 13th-century saint who is known ... People who want married priests, people who want women to be priests, people who want all ...

About 8 feet below the modern building, the team found the ruins of a stone wall, identified as part of a 13th-century bishop’s fortress. Some of the medieval ruins found under the Čazma City ...

the portrait is oddly sexier than we might expect of 19th-century middle-aged women, no matter how modern. Women Artists in Denmark 1880-1910 offers many such surprising pleasures. Featuring the ...

The longest selection took two years and nine months with the election of Pope Gregory in the 13th century, and led to the formalization of the conclave process.