Pope Francis is continuing his slow recovery from double pneumonia and beating back speculation of an imminent death, ...
Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.
Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
The Vatican said the 88-year-old pope once again slept well during the night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and was resting ...
Pope Francis is always trying to expand the horizons of the church and engage everyone, Archbishop Jeffrey Grob said, ...
Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square on a chilly, rainy evening to pray for an ailing Pope Francis.