On March 13, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was elected pope on the second day of the conclave. He became the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere and the first ...
When I entered the Jesuit order 25 years ago, several friends — including the Catholic ones — scratched their heads. “You’re entering the what?” was the most common response. When I slowly repeated ...
Then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass in 2008 at a church in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, ...
Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, speaks at a news conference in Rome April 10, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Roughly three hours after Pope Leo XIV appeared on the balcony of ...