VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a Vatican official, instead spending decades in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His age and ill-health mean Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe is unlikely to become the new pope - Reuters/Hannah McKay Amid the ...

Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming, but behind closed doors these are the days of dinner parties, coffee klatches and private meetings as cardinals in town to elect a ...

The photograph in question is authentic but was shot in 2008, not 1998, by photographer Pablo Leguizamon for The Associated Press. At the time, Pope Francis was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (L) greets Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio at the Basilica of Lujan, December 22, 2008. Pope Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, ...