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

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The pontiff’s papal name choice honored St. Francis of Assisi, whose life was devoted to serving the ... Javier Cámara, ...

In the wake of Pope Francis' death in April 2025, a slew of videos purportedly telling the heartwarming story of the pope's dog refusing to leave his side were posted on YouTube. The videos ...

The pontiff’s papal name choice honored St. Francis of Assisi, whose life was devoted ... authored the 2014 biography on the pontiff, "Aquel Francisco." Pope Francis sat with the two men to ...

and the first pope to choose the name Francis because he loved St. Francis of Assisi. And of course, that characterized his entire papacy focusing on the marginalized, the poor, the peripheral ...

The folklore of the prophecy of St. Malachy says that Pope Francis may be the very last pontiff. Historians say that's doubtful.

His father was Mario Bergoglio, an Italian accountant who fled Piedmont, Italy to escape the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, according to his Vatican biography. His mother, Regina Maria Sivori ...

If being the first Latin American and Jesuit pope wasn’t enough, he was the first to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi ... Only in a 2010 authorized biography did he recount how he ...

The Vatican published his biography. He graduated as a chemical ... He was the first to take the name of Francis, which was after St. Francis of Assisi. DoorDash acquires Deliveroo, SevenRooms ...

St. Francis of Assisi as a model Francis lived in the Vatican ... recounting in a 2010 biography that, “I don’t know what it was, but it changed my life. … I realized that they were waiting ...