Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...
Pope Francis is continuing his slow recovery from double pneumonia and beating back speculation of an imminent death, ...
Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.
Pope Francis has transformed the church from an institution in which a few called the shots to a church of the people of God.
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...
People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...
The Vatican said the 88-year-old pope once again slept well during the night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital and was resting ...
"Conclave is packed with unexpected twists and its final reveal is one viewers will never see coming, an increasingly rare ...