By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday, holding a massive open-air mass ...

Francis, who came from a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, became known as the Jesuit priest who rode the city’s ...

With songs, dancing, tears and prayers, mourners in Buenos Aires marked the burial of native son Pope Francis on Saturday.

Pope Francis’ beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, has celebrated a Mass dedicated to its most famous ...

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

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine soccer club San Lorenzo paid tributes to its fan Pope Francis during a national ...

From flags to a life-size statue, images and homages to Pope Francis were visible all around the Pedro Bidegain stadium in ...

Adamo Faiden’s new veterinary clinic in Buenos Aires is a testament to the growing consideration for non‑human creatures in ...

The first pope from the Americas was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936. He was chosen ...

Jorge Bergoglio was born in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, on December 17, 1936. The son of Italian immigrants, Mario and Regina, he was the eldest of five siblings. He spent his childhood ...

born in Buenos Aires, never set foot in his homeland after becoming Pope Francis in 2013. That left many of the faithful in Argentina feeling puzzled and snubbed by the world’s first Latin ...