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Though the significance of his papacy is yet to be seen, a look at this cardinal’s life gives continued hope.

The stances of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on a wide range of issues are coming under intense scrutiny now that the Argentine has been named Pope Francis. And news reports from before his ascendancy to the papacy reveal inconsistent statements on the topic.

The Jesuits are known as the church’s smartest order, as well as the largest. But a sinister fame has kept them from the papacy –- until now.

U.S. lawmakers are sharing in the excitement over Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election as the new pope.

Argentina's Catholics reacted joyfully to news that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio would become Pope Francis, but not everyone is quite so devoted.

Bergoglio holds conservative views on abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality and contraception.

How has China, a nation with 12 million practicing Catholics and a complicated past with the Vatican, reacted to the election of a new pope?

The 76-year-old Pontiff, the first Jesuit pope, was born in Buenos Aires in 1936 to an Italian railway worker and his wife.

A Falkland Islands delegation is on a W. Hemisphere tour for international recognition of the islands as a self-governing U.K. territory.

Venezuela is setting up a government inquiry to investigate suspicions of foul play shrouding the death of President Hugo Chavez.

Uruguay’s President José Mujica has said that the socialist ideology of the late Venezuelan president will persist as a political movement.

The people of the Falkland Islands have voted overwhelmingly to stay British, it was reported Monday night.

Leonardo Mayer withdrew in the third-round match with a back injury.

Fiorentina forward Stevan Jovetic has left the door open for a summer transfer.

An Argentinian court has convicted Carlos Menem of illegally selling 6,500 tons of weapons to Croatia and Ecuador in the early 1990.

Chelsea have reportedly opened talks over signing Benfica defender Ezequiel Garay.

MS-13 wants to spread its influence into countries like Chile, Peru, Argentina and Spain -- and it aims to get there through deportation.

Argentina has both condemned the referendum and dismissed it as irrelevant.

The late Venezuelan Hugo Chavez’s funeral is scheduled for Friday and will be attended leaders throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

The highest cancer mortality rates were found in Uruguay, Barbados, Peru, Argentina and Chile.

The death of Latin America's longest-serving leader made news everywhere, but Chavez's Chinese friends didn't play the story too big.