This week marks a historic moment for Latin American missions as COMIBAM holds its first continental conference since 2017 in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, ...

Drawing on Latin American theology that emphasizes collaboration, developed in response to continued struggles with ...

The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

Upon his election to the papacy, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to hail from Latin America. His impact, though, ...

He vowed to place less emphasis on "small-minded rules" or the "disjointed multitude of doctrines" and more on the "endless possibilities of grace." ...

Despite the unresolved issues that many Catholics know are long overdue, Francis achieved far more for marginalized people ...

As the first Latin American pontiff, the legacy of Pope Francis in the region is complex, according to analysts consulted by ...

SÃO PAULO—When Francis became the first Latin American pope in 2013, many hoped he would reverse the Roman Catholic Church’s ...

While Catholics in Latin America clung to the vestment hems of ... from the reservoirs of faith flowing from a half-century of religious struggle. Bergoglio was, in effect, a descendant of the ...