Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church since 2013

Pope Francis is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian pope Gregory III.

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Pope Francis has said he will canonise a teenager born in London, setting the date for them to become the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church.
10 hours ago • Sky News

Pope Francis is calling for an investigation to determine whether Israel has committed "genocide" in Gaza.
4 days ago • Sky News

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