In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

With the publication of this autobiography, Pope Francis cements his monumental project of demystifying the papacy.

The Pope recounts how his mother initially opposed his vocation but later sought his blessing at his ordination ...

In its quieter and more personal moments, the book offers an intimate picture and perspective of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs ...

Pope Francis has picked ... of Buenos Aires after Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli submitted his resignation due to his age. Poli succeeded Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he became Pope in 2013.

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

Francis’ unswerving support for migrants, he writes, derives from his own background as the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina ... Aires shows Jorge Mario Bergoglio, later Pope Francis ...

At the beginning of Pope Francis’s papacy his controversial predecessor handed him a large white box stuffed with confidential documents relating to the “most difficult and painful situations ...

Hope is a book that combines an account of Pope Francis’ life with ... As he recounts in Hope, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was born in 1936 in Argentina, the child of a large migrant Italian ...

Pope Francis discussed in a ... just before his 33rd birthday, Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio was ordained a priest by Archbishop Emeritus of Córdoba, Argentina, Ramón José Castellano.

It’s a virtue I have learnt to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth ... recreates the colourful world where the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up – a world that was a menagerie ...