Urbi et orbi” means “To the city [of Rome] and to the world.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year on Easter Sunday, Christmas, and other special occasions.

Pope Francis was born in 1936, and grew up in Buenos Aires, in the barrio of Flores, a simple neighbourhood. After spells working in a sock factory, Francis became a Jesuit novice in 1958; he was ...

Francis, who came from a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, became known as the Jesuit priest who rode the city’s ...

Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday, holding a massive open-air mass in front of the cathedral where he ...

In the poor Zavaleta district of Buenos Aires, amidst precarious houses and narrow alleys, Marina Ayala walks the same ...

Pope Francis’ beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, has celebrated a Mass dedicated to its most famous ...

Crowds of Catholic faithful gathered in Buenos Aires to bid farewell to Pope Francis as his funeral was held in the Vatican ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the archbishop of his hometown Buenos Aires. On April 26, Argentina’s capital city held an outdoor Mass remembering their humble priest ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of ...

FILE - Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience ... shows the Bergoglio family as they pose for a portrait, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Top row, from left; Maria Elena, Regina ...

Pope Francis’ journey from the streets of Flores, a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the Vatican, is a remarkable ...

Yahoo News looks back on the legacy of Pope Francis — born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1936 — after he died on Monday at 88 years old.