Videos circulating online used a clip from the parody site The Onion to falsely claim that Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as his successor Claim: Pope Francis has resigned ...

Francis had been Pope for less than two years ... scandal” and demanded due process for disgraced cardinal Angelo Becciu, then accused (and later sentenced) for financial crimes.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans ... the Biblical call to “welcome the stranger.” Another cardinal close to Francis, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, said the reports ...

Pope Francis is also not the first pope to share his life story. As a cardinal, the late Joseph Ratzinger wrote an autobiography that was published in 1997, eight years before he became Pope ...