The pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia, and warnings that he could be significantly diminished, have accelerated ...

The Vatican’s central number is public — and the sisters of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master make sure all who call it get a real person, not the “press 1 for English, 2 for Latin” version of ...

Adult Fiction "Death Takes Me" by Cristina Rivera Garza: A city is always a cemetery. When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles on the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark ...

Cautious relief as Pope Francis marks one month in hospital - The 88-year-old pope has not been seen by most faithful since a ...

In an interview five days before he would be installed as the new archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy expressed concern about the personal impact of the Trump Administration’s ...

Pope Francis is no longer at immediate risk from double pneumonia and is responding well to medical treatment as he continues ...

What are Pope Francis’ messages from the hospital telling the world about faith and perseverance? 88 years old, lying in a hospital bed, and still finding the strength to lead millions of people with ...

Just as Popes John Paul II’s and Benedict’s final days revealed their understandings of the papacy, Francis’ illness has ...

Rome — The voice of Pope Francis was heard by the public on Thursday night for the first time since he was admitted to a ...

The crisis was a new setback in the Pope's fight to recover from a complicated respiratory infection, which has lasted more ...

There has almost always been an outright hostility that is shown towards people of the Christian faith,” House Speaker Mike ...