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The Roman Catholic Church has announced that Pope Francis was rushed to a hospital and will be admitted to the hospital.

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Details on Pope Francis's first visit to America.

Pope Francis gave a historic address today when he spoke before a rare joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill Thursday morning. His speech (full text below) touched on numerous issues that have been heavily debated in Washington — climate change, the death penalty, religious freedom, immigration and more — but he focused often on the current refugee crisis in Europe.

Pope Francis is hip to the trends of our time.

Photographs from the Pope's various activities on his first day in America.

Yesterday, the white smoke rose and Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected as the new pope. He is the first pope from the Americas and was elected as the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Check out what we discovered about the new Holy Father with the top 16 things we know about Pope Francis: 1...

Jorge Bergoglio, the 76-year-old archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been elected as pope. He is the first Latin American to lead the Catholic Church. Bergoglio, who has taken the name Francis I, is also the first Jesuit priest to become pope.