Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...

A secret meeting, and echoes of Benedict’s exit, have heightened talk that Francis could resign, too. But the possibility is ...

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...

The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days subsided and a CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of ...

Concerns over Pope Francis' health have mounted in recent years as have questions about his succession. Here's what we know.

People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...

A little-remembered gathering in the 1960s could have stopped the problems which now batter the Church’s reputation, a new ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

The faithful continue to gather at St. Peter's Square and churches around Rome to pray for the health of the pontiff.

Father Gabriel Romanelli was able to speak with Pope Francis on Tuesday despite the fact that the pontiff remains ...

So how does God judge popes? It cannot be an easy examination, for Christ tells us that much will be demanded from those to ...