Latin American bishops began to implement the ... determining the next pope now more closely reflects the global Catholic Church than the 2013 conclave. Today, 13% of cardinal-electors are from ...

His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and His church," declared the Vatican in a statement read by Cardinal Kevin Farrell. “He taught us to live the values of the Gospel with ...

A 2014 Pew Research survey on Latin American religion found overwhelming ... acknowledged that the Catholic Church here is not what it once was. But Francis leaves behind a vision of Catholicism ...

According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ... The differences between the two American cardinals reflect divisions within the broader global church that have grown since the Second ...

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter's Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world ... the groundbreaking Roman Catholic Church leader praised around the ...

Also served on the Pontifical Commission for Latin America ... now Pope Leo XIV and the first American pope, was chosen by his fellow cardinals as the Catholic Church's response to the U.S ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said on Monday. He died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican ...

Bells tolled in Catholic churches from his native Argentina ... If becoming the first Latin American and first Jesuit pope wasn’t enough, Francis was also the first to name himself after ...

Latin American bishops began to implement the teachings of the modernizing Second Vatican Council right after the council in the early 1960s. And as a result, “we try to be a church that is a ...

He was the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas. Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday, just over 12 years after assuming the papacy.