BUENOS AIRES - In the poor Zabaleta district of Buenos Aires, amidst precarious houses and narrow alleys, María Ayala walks ...

War correspondent Emile Dillon was born in a hardware shop near the Four Courts in Victorian Dublin, but went on to become a ...

The legacy of Pope Francis, who famously exhorted young Catholics to "shake things up" by taking the gospel to "favelas, slums and shantytowns," lives on in the ramshackle neighborhood of 40,000 ...

When the late Pope Francis first stepped on to the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica following his election 12 years ago, he ...

The obituaries in June 1933 only gave a small glimpse into a colourful life from the slum streets of Victorian ... and an involvement in political intrigues in European capitals and the dollar ...

This is not merely a biographical detail. His papacy was transformative in shaping a Catholic Church that was not focused solely on Europe. He shifted its attention from the old continent to the world ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a ...

As a pope who wanted to stay close to the people and at times advocated a more moderate line at the Church, Pope Francis ...

It was the first time that magistrates in Manchester had encountered the word ‘scuttling’ and in the years and decades that ...

Pope Francis visited Kenya in 2015, urging unity, justice, and youth empowerment while highlighting poverty, peace, and ...

The first non-European pontiff in centuries pioneered change but was not the radical liberal of conservative imaginings ...