Pope Francis' beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, celebrated a Mass late Wednesday dedicated to its most famous fan two days after his death, with Argentina still awash in ...

San Lorenzo, Pope Francis' favorite Argentine soccer club, paid a moving tribute to its renowned fan. In a video posted on social media by the club, San Lorenzo refers to Pope Francis as "siempre ...

We will miss you," the footballer said in a post with a photo of him with the pope. San Lorenzo, meanwhile, adorned its home page with a large photo of a smiling pope under the club's blue-and-red ...

Before he was Pope Francis, the first pope from the Americas, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio — a kid from Buenos Aires cheering for San Lorenzo, going to live games with his dad on Sundays.

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A lifelong supporter of Argentine club San Lorenzo, he agreed with those who describe soccer as the most beautiful game in the world. But Francis, who died Monday at 88, also turned to the sport ...

The Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was named Francis on March 13 2013, was very close to the world of soccer, as he was himself a big fan of Argentinian team San Lorenzo, and a friend of ...

SAN LORENZO, Calif. -- A California woman was pulled over in Georgia because the license plate on the car she was driving didn't match the vehicle. It turns out it was a rental car, and the ...

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentine football great Lionel Messi thanked Pope Francis Monday for "making the world a better place" as the late pontiff's favorite club, San Lorenzo, hailed his decades ...