Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

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

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

Growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in the 1940s, the boy who would become Pope witnessed drugs, prostitutes... and ...

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

In a new book, Pope Francis said he feels “all right” despite his illnesses. “The reality is, quite simply, that I am old,” ...

The unmistakable feeling is that the hype before publication of Hope is yet another example of the triumph of marketing over ...

Hope,” the autobiography of Pope Francis, hit the shelves of Italian bookstores Tuesday and will be on sale starting Jan. 16 ...

ROME (AP) — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave ...

H is Holiness Pope Francis —the 266th bishop of Rome, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church, sovereign of the Vatican City ...

Pope Francis is unlike any of his predecessors – not least because he is the first to write an autobiography while still in office, writes Catherine Pepinster. But while he uses the book to admits his ...

Mr Gian Maria Vian, a former editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said he appreciated the “many personal details” the book added to Pope Francis’ biography ...